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7/25/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.25.2026 at 10:42pm
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National Security News:

1. Five Plays to Seize Time and Deter War in the Western Pacific
2. The Secret Trip That Turned Laura Loomer From Ukraine Skeptic to Supporter
3. Taiwan wants peace but prepares for war
4. Taiwan Tests How It Would Resist a Chinese Siege at Sea
5. Losing the Ambiguity, Missing the Strategy: US Policy Towards Taiwan in Flux
6. What a helicopter’s flight in the Taiwan Strait says about Beijing’s war plans
7. NATO-IP4 Relations Remain Stronger Than the Last Two Summits Suggest
8. Odysseus at the End of Civilization
9. Number of U.S. Troop Deaths Suddenly Appears Lower on Pentagon Website
10. The U.S. and Iran Are Stuck in a Cycle of Military Escalation
11. Cheap, Accurate and Lethal: Iran’s Best Missile Is Getting More Dangerous
12. What Washington’s Nuclear Gamble with Saudi Means
13. The war in Ukraine has dramatically changed special forces operations
14. The Houthis Have Opened a New Front in the U.S.-Iran War
15. War and Tariffs Threaten a Resilient U.S. Economy Again
16.  Trump sets new tariffs to punish use of ‘forced labor,’ replacing expiring import taxes
17. China Has Come Through Trump’s Trade War in a Good Position
18. A Rogue Hack and China at the Door Spark a Great AI Panic

 

Korean News:

1. The real question isn’t why North Koreans don’t resist
2. Hidden human cost of national division: youth reflections on separated kin
3. Toward an Integrated Transition of Wartime Operational Control
4.  An Unprepared OPCON Transfer Would Be a Disaster
5. NATO-IP4 Relations Remain Stronger Than the Last Two Summits Suggest
6. The Rise of North Korea’s Nuclear-Armed Navy
7. Editorial: Trump’s Double Standard: Saudi Arabia Allowed, South Korea Denied
8. Korea-US Tech Giants Ink $950B Semiconductor-AI Pact
9. Seoul sends the U.S. House a point-by-point rebuttal on Coupang
10. N. Korea border guard duty loses its appeal as bribes dry up
11. N. Korea rice prices hit record high as exchange rate climbs
12. Rising prices drive North Korean women toward prostitution
13. After 20 years on the move, a school for children with North Korean backgrounds gets a permanent home

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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