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8/21/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.21.2026 at 10:05pm
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National Security News:

1. Is America Still Capable of Enforcing the World Order?
2. Trump increasingly lashing out at allies as victory in Iran war proves elusive
3. Blackwater’s Erik Prince Launches Air-Defense Startup
4. Russia’s missile tests around disputed islands anger Japan
5. Op-Ed: War With Iran Has Left Western World Exposed to Ballistic Missiles
6. Plane Crash Near Remote Military Radar Site in Alaska Kills 8
7. The First US Army War College Wargaming & Professional Military Education Symposium: A New Home for a Growing Community
8. Why Human Informants Still Matter in the Age of AI Surveillance
9. Securing the Undersea Domain in an Era of Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific
10. Drone companies, admin leaders meet for first White House ‘Drone Dominance’ meeting
11. The Cost of India’s Calibrated Neutrality in the Iran War
12. How Ronald Reagan used diplomacy to end the cold war
13. CIA staff exodus leaves new retirees waiting months for benefits
14. Building the Army’s Human Advantage: A Vision of Readiness for the Future of Autonomous Warfare
15. Mental Health Is a Warfighting Readiness Problem for the U.S. Navy
16. A Rock and China’s Three-Sea Problem
17. War: Watt Is It Good For?
18. America’s Missing Military Revolution
19. Democracies Need Creative Destruction
20. Why Criminals Love the Chinese Economy

 

Korean News:

1.  North Korea’s Fingerprints Are All Over Iran’s War Against America
2. North Korea fires 10 missiles day after Trump curtails South Korea joint drills
3. Kim Yo Jong mocks ‘puppet’ Seoul as Trump cuts short U.S.-ROK military drills
4. Seoul urges North Korea to halt ‘derogatory remarks’
5. State Department seeks $3 million projects to counter North Korean propaganda
6. As Trump courts Kim, Pyongyang ups price while Seoul fears being sidelined
7. ROK-US Alliance Management Via Social Media
8. Trump’s snub of South Korea sends region scrambling
9. Trump scaling down U.S.-South Korea drills could risk more than just joint military readiness
10. (News Focus) Questions grow over Trump’s commitment to N. Korea denuclearization goal
11. U.S.-North Korea talks without denuclearization risk worst-case outcome
12. 3 hurdles stand in way of Trump-Kim summit
13. Trump should talk to Kim, but not at the expense of strategy
14. NK peace

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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