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1/23/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.23.2025 at 02:30pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Special Forces Mission & Mindset: Reclaiming Unconventional Warfare in the Renewed Age of Irregular Conflict
2. Defense Primer: What Is Irregular Warfare?
3. Secretary Marco Rubio Remarks to Employees
4. Priorities and Mission of the Second Trump Administration’s Department of State
5. Intentions v actions (DOS Priorities)
6. further on State
7. Two officers were fired for bucking their chain of command. Now they’re going to work at the Pentagon.
8. Deep cuts in Army, EUCOM downsizing among plans pushed by 2 Trump defense strategists
9. U.S. Special Operations Command Cut the Size of One of Its Most Controversial Programs
10. Donald Trump’s Biggest Foreign Policy Test: The Axis of Upheaval
11. Report: To Fix Deterrence, Rethink Goldwater-Nichols, Boost Budget
12. Trump must rally international support against the Chinese Communist Party
13. White House sidelines 160 National Security Council staffers, aligning the team with Trump’s agenda
14. The Quad foreign ministers joint statement: short and sweet
15. A Returning President Trump Takes on The World
16. Start Making Sense: Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration
17. Spy vs. Spy in Taiwan
18. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 22, 2025
19. Iran Update, January 22, 2025
20. The Cold War Putin Wants
21. Exclusive: US deploys Typhon missile launchers to new location in Philippines
22. Trump and the Perils of Ungoverning
23. Crimson Moon Rising: A Defiant Spark Ignites in the Shadows (Fiction)
24. Silk Web of Alliances: Trump’s Legacy and the Indo-Pacific’s Future

Korean News Content:

1. [Breaking News] People Power Party 48.5%, Democratic Party 38.8% “2030 and the middle class turn their backs on the Democratic Party”
2. S. Korean FM Cho holds 1st phone call with U.S. top diplomat Rubio; both agree on close cooperation on N.K. nuke
3. Discussions under way to schedule FM meeting of S. Korea, China, Japan: Seoul
4. Lee Jae-Myung quotes Deng Xiaoping
5. Trump must rally international support against the Chinese Communist Party
6. South Korean lawmaker seeks Trump’s support for democracy amid political crisis in Seoul
7. Fighting Alongside Russia, North Koreans Wage Their Own War
8. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 22, 2025
9. Ex-Executive Who Oversaw South Korean Airport Renovations Is Found Dead
10. Constitutional Court rejects impeachment of broadcasting watchdog chief
11. Crimson Moon Rising: A Defiant Spark Ignites in the Shadows
12. North Korea reiterates it has ‘no intention’ of abandoning nuclear program
13. Three North Koreans wanted in Kursk for killing Russian soldiers: report
14. N. Korea executes nuclear power plant researchers over project failures
15. Will Casualties in Ukraine Lead to Change in North Korea?
16. Silk Web of Alliances: Trump’s Legacy and the Indo-Pacific’s Future

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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