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1/30/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.30.2025 at 02:13pm

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National Security News Content:

1. How is War Fought in the Gray Zone?
2. How USSOF Resistance Operations Strengthen Security Cooperation
3. How DeepSeek changed the future of AI—and what that means for national security
4. An evergreen assessment – Ancient wisdom that holds true today by Matt Armstrong
5. Is the defense budget ready for a cold war?
6. Group ‘linked to DeepSeek’ DID steal OpenAI data, Microsoft fears, as concerns grow that the communist tech has ripped off US intellectual property
7. What DeepSeek knows about you — and why it matters
8. U.S. Businesses Already Love DeepSeek
9. The Classic Art of War Requires Integrating All Elements of Power
10. Trump’s Transactional Foreign Policy Leads to Flurry of Pledges
11. misunderstandings – military aircraft
12. Army’s hurry-up force-design ideas are due in March, chief says
13. Feds shouldn’t take ‘deferred resignation’ offer, warn employee groups, Democrats, experts
14. Some Say AI Is the Greatest Invention of All Time. I Don’t Get It.
15. AI Needs a Lot of Computing Power. Is a Market for ‘Compute’ the Next Big Thing?
16. ‘I Gave My Life to the FBI. And It Damn Near Broke Me.’
17. Kash Patel: How I’ll Rebuild Public Trust in the FBI
18. Expert Q&A: The AI Challenge for the U.S. Military
19. Ex-Ukraine Prime Minister: Trump Holds Keys to ‘Future of Ukraine’
20. Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ is a fantasy. But there are practical options.
21. Fighting Ghosts: Passive Integrated Air Defenses
22. The Case for Peace Through Strength – and Diplomacy
23. At Gabbard’s Confirmation Hearing, Edward Snowden May Loom Large
24. The Price of Trump’s Power Politics
25. The Case for Reglobalization
26. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 29, 2025
27. Iran Update, January 29, 2025
28. Found in Translation: Bolster U.S. Coalition Warfighting by Fixing the Linguist Shortfall
29. Five questions to ask before declaring war on cartels
30. How Would Iranian Nuclear Forces Be Deployed?

Korean News Content:

1. “Trump’s 2nd term, possible reduction of US troops in Korea and readjustment of roles, focusing on suppressing China”
2. Experts: “Trump Confirms Will to Build Integrated Missile Defense with Korea… Also Responds to Threats from China and Russia”
3. Commerce secretary nominee accuses S. Korea, Japan of having ‘taken advantage of’ U.S.’ good nature
4. misunderstandings – military aircraft
5. Acting president orders extra vigilance on U.S. policy uncertainty
6. Samsung mobile phone found among belongings of N. Korean soldier killed by Ukrainian forces
7. Navy’s new Seahawk helicopters to start to arrive in S. Korea next month
8. Trump plans to disarm North Korea, but Kim wants more nuclear weapons
9. Kim Jong-un seeks negotiating leverage over Trump with new nuclear demands: analysts
10. [Expert Diagnosis] ① Klingner “Secretary Rubio will attempt to communicate with North Korea”
11. The myth of human wave attacks obscures what North Korea is learning in Ukraine
12. North Korean Human Rights Groups Also in ‘Confusion’ Over US Government Subsidies
13. ‘Big Problem for Kim’: DPRK Troops Suffer Heavy Losses From Ukrainian Drones
14. Seoul urges North Korea to resume separated family reunions as deaths near 100K
15. U.S. Congress completes formation of subcommittee on Korean Peninsula… Senator Ricketts and Representative Young Kim as key figures
16. South Korea’s perfect storm – and no one’s at the helm
17. Stressed Security Environment In North-East Asia And Focus On Defence Spending – Analysis

About The Author

  • 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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