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9/16/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

By David Maxwell

09.16.2026 at 07:24pm

National Security News:

1. Iran War’s Price Tag, Pegged at $38 Billion, Is Growing as Much as $3 Billion a Month

2. Exclusive | Pentagon Wants Only the Fittest Troops to Attend Upcoming Hegseth Speech

3. Opinion | U.S. Space Weapons Are a Force for Peace

4. China warns against space ‘battlefield’ after US says weapons deployed

5. China launching multidomain drone swarms for next-gen warfare

6. CNA Explains: Why AI leaders are calling for a slowdown – and what makes it so difficult

7. ‘It’s not science fiction’: US Air Force must build trust in AI, says expert

8. How a Chinese Hacking Firm Tapped AI to Supercharge Cyber-Spying

9. Japan’s submarine debate signals break from nuclear taboos

10. A New Kind of Cold War? China-US Competition in Latin America

11. Taiwan tests US-made MQ-9B drones to counter PLA ‘grey-zone’ operations

12. ‘High Value Target’: Hunting for Saddam Hussein, and the Truth

13. China changes law to mobilize all resources in case of conflict. Should neighbors worry?

14. Strategic Stability and the Rebuilding of Xi’s Military

15. To Disrupt Russia’s Shadow War, Follow the Money

16. Trump and Xi Can’t Stop the U.S.-China Spiral: The Delusions of Summitry and the Limits of Personalist Diplomacy

17. Greater Than the Sum: Considerations for Framing Force Modernization

18. Battalion Perspectives in Contact: Bridging Tactical Gaps During Transformation\

19. Paving the Insurgency: Infrastructure in Papua and the War Jakarta Isn’t Ready to Fight

Korean News:

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David Maxwell

David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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