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10/26/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.26.2026 at 04:34pm
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National Security News:

1. Why Not UW? The Three Half-Truths Killing Unconventional Warfare by Duc Duclos
2. Passing of LTG(R) William P. “Bill” Tangney
3. The West’s double standard on global unrest
4. Why the Silence Over the Uncovering of the Color Revolution Plot?
5. A ‘super’ rebrand: Navy mandates dropping ‘artificial intelligence’
6. Accelerationism and Algorithms of Violence: Mind that Beef
7. The U.S. Shipbuilding Revival Is Taking Lessons Halfway Around the World
8. Opinion | Viktor Orbán, U.N. Secretary-General?
9. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Directs Establishment of New Air National Guard Special Tact
10. How the Seizure of a Russian Vessel Brought the Ukraine War to the Arctic
11. France’s Nuclear Forces Bring In Neighbors to Keep Russia in Check
12. Exclusive | Death Threats, Lawsuits and Billions in Play: The Battle Over Moving Russian Oil
13. AI Is a Choice: The Narrow but Feasible Path to Collective Good
14. The Strategist in the Gray Flannel Suit: John Foster Dulles and the Cold War Consensus (Book Review)
15. Strength vs. Confrontation: Do American Forces in the First Island Chain Deter or Invite War?
16. Opinion | Coddling Putin Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine By Mitch McConnell
17. A New Era of War: A Nine-Ton U.S. Helicopter Versus a Drone
18. To Work With P.O.W.s, Ukrainians Suppress Feelings About the Enemy
19. Is Washington misreading Beijing? Decline in US visits to China sparks concern
20. SOF Weekly Brief – Oct 26, 2026

 

Korean News:

1. Why did Kim Jong Un cross ‘Jang Song Thaek’s bridge’?
2. Simulated North Korean attack pierces South’s lines without nukes
3. S. Korea, U.S. closely coordinating on setting target year for OPCON transfer: defense chief
4. N. Korea calls DMZ mine blasts ‘fabricated’ in Security Council letter
5. S. Korea, U.S. kick off combined air drills this week
6. Woman in military custody over unauthorized entry into restricted front-line border area
7. Unification ministry hopes Kim’s Dandong trip revives dialogue
8. Kim Jong-un’s Dandong visit is wake-up call for S. Korea-US-Japan partnership
9. [COVER STORY] Coupang issue becomes bellwether for Korea’s treatment of US firms: ex-AMCHAM chief
10. The U.S. Shipbuilding Revival Is Taking Lessons Halfway Around the World
11. This Time, the Korean Loudspeaker Standoff Is Different
12. Weapons to Russia, Wigs to China: How North Korea Balances Its Allies
13. South Korea’s Ruling Democratic Party Is Tumbling in the Polls
14. Crying wolf on national security

About The Author

  • Dave 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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