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8/1/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.01.2026 at 10:18pm
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National Security News:

  1. Trump Orders Fresh Attack Against Iran as War Enters Sixth Month
  2. Iran War Pushes Companies to Raise Prices on Beer, Paint, Fries and More
  3. Opinion | JD Vance’s Warning About Regime Change Gets It Backward
  4. The Logical Effect of Undermining Our Allies’ Trust
  5. In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear
  6. Russian Missiles Kill 9 in Kyiv After Trump Backs Off Air-Defense Pledge
  7. Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
  8. U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel
  9. Russia used N.Korean missile for deadly strike on Ukrainian village, Zelenskiy says
  10. State Dept. apologizes for mislabeling countries on Africa map
  11. An American seabed drone with no cable running back to shore heard submarine drones come through a channel and put them on a Navy screen within seconds, during a six-week exercise across two continents
  12. This May Be Trump’s Biggest Error in the Iran War
  13. Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
  14. SOF News: Drone Monthly Update – July 2026
  15. When America Falls Silent: The Strategic Costs of Dismantling VOA
  16. China Rewrites the ‘Soft Power’ Playbook for the A.I. Age
  17. Government presents Sweden’s first national strategy for psychological defence
  18. The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures
  19. Authoritarians Keep Telling Us What They Fear. We Should Listen.

 

Korean News:

  1. Full text of op-ed by new U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Michelle Steel
  2. U.S. Ambassador Steel Engages in Field Diplomacy
  3. U.S. ambassador visits downtown Starbucks in first outing since arrival
  4. Partisanship over new envoy hurts national interest
  5. Left-Wing Protests Against US Ambassador: Foolish Act
  6. Russia used N.Korean missile for deadly strike on Ukrainian village, Zelenskiy says
  7. Russia used North Korean missile in Ukraine for first time since 2025: Kyiv
  8. U.S., Allies Put Frictions Aside, Showing China Combined Naval Might
  9. N. Korea decries NATO fuel network overhaul as ‘unprecedented’ war preparations
  10. Gov’t weighing options to protect movement in Hormuz, national security adviser says\
  11. N. Korea denounces move by U.S. military in Japan to increase troop numbers
  12. S. Korea, U.S., 9 other countries issue joint alert on N. Korean IT workers
  13. U.S. lawmaker submits bill aimed at countering N.K. IT worker schemes

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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