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1/15/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.15.2025 at 03:25pm

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National Security News Content:

1. The next decade of strategic competition: How the Pentagon can use special operations forces to better compete
2. Doing the Wrong Thing Well: Flawed Security Policy for Ukraine
3. US intervention against Mexican cartels carries major risks. Here’s how to mitigate them.
4. Philosophy of the Individual and an American Theory of Special Operations
5. North Korean Troops Become Cannon Fodder for Russia
6. Wagner Soldiers ‘Are Just Children’ Compared to North Korean Troops – Ukrainian Commander
7. Can Donald Trump Really Contain China’s Rise to Power?
8. Can Ukraine Survive Without U.S. Military Weapons?
9. Geopolitical Consequences of Ukraine’s Defeat
10. Drone War in Ukraine: Bombers, Kamikaze Strikes and Dogfights in the Sky
11. The United States Can’t Afford to Not Harden its Air Bases
12. Biden in late push to boost Indo-Pacific ties sends three pacts to Congress
13. 12-nation airborne drill in Japan focuses on defending remote islands
14. How Putin Lost Syria
15. Taiwan’s Military Is Not Prepared for a Trumpian World
16. Beyond Buzzwords: A Model for Strengthening Interoperability and Interior Lines
17. Corporate Transparency Act in Limbo: The National Security Risks of Anonymous Shell Companies
18. Spy vs. AI: How Artificial Intelligence Will Remake Espionage
19. China plans to blow Starlink out of the sky in a Taiwan war
20. Staunching The Rise of Terrorist Fighters

Korean News Content:

1. South Korea Arrests President on Second Attempt. It Took 1,000 Police.

2. The Arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol

3. Impeached Yoon detained over failed martial law declaration

4. Probe team set to leave no stone unturned in interrogation of Yoon over martial law bid

5. North Korean Troops Become Cannon Fodder for Russia

6. Wagner Soldiers ‘Are Just Children’ Compared to North Korean Troops – Ukrainian Commander

7. South Korea Detains Its President, but Crisis Is Far From Over

8. South Korea’s impeached president detained over martial law gambit

9. South Korea, Japan, US hold air drills following North’s missile tests

10. U.S. stands firm in support for Koreans, appreciates Korea’s efforts to act in accordance with Constitution: White House

11. President Yoon to be kept in solitary at Seoul Detention Center

12. North Korea in 2025: Make Money Not War

13. South Korea in no political condition to deal with Trump

14. U.S. Secretary of Defense nominee: “North Korea is a nuclear state”… Giving up on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula?

15. Bush Center proposes ‘comprehensive reorganization of North Korea policy centered on human rights’

 

 

 

About The Author

  • 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 a contributing editor to Small Wars Journal.

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