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5/14/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.14.2025 at 10:22am

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National Security News Content:

1. C.I.A. Rejects Diversity Efforts Once Deemed as Essential to Its Mission
2. U.S. Special Operations Command hosts first ever International Commander’s Forum to build generational relationships during Special Operations Forces Week 2025
3. JSOC commander likely to be SOCOM pick, sources say
4. How the Osama bin Laden Raid Gave China Its New Stealth Helicopter
5. Army to eliminate 2 Security Force Assistance Brigades, reassign experienced soldiers
6. Special Operations cyber officer regains health with help of SOF resources
7. Is AI the future of America’s foreign policy? Some experts think so
8. In High-Stakes Negotiations, Trump’s Opponents Are Learning His Patterns
9. Cruz: Gift of Qatari jet to Trump ‘poses significant espionage’ concerns
10. HIMARS unleashed in Taiwan as China watches on
11. Army jailbreak foiled at Fort Leavenworth
12. The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly
13. How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire
14. My Brush With Trump’s Thought Police
15. A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press
16. Fire the Generals: Civilian control of the military is at stake
17. Asia without America, part 1: The cupboards are bare
18. How Qatar Bought America
19. Trump Clash With Library of Congress Sets Up Constitutional Fight
20. Dollar Likely a Long Way From Losing Reserve Status
21. The Strategic Blindfold: How Damaging Alliances Can Lead to Costly Mistakes
22. The West’s Intellectual Deficit in Modern War by Mick Ryan
23. A Clausewitzian Lens on Modern Urban Warfare
24. It’s Not Enough for France to Be Right About Strategic Autonomy
25. When Trade Wars Become Shooting Wars

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea’s Kim supervises special operations’ drills, urges full preparations for war
2. Close aide to N. Korean leader presumed to be reinstated after suspected reeducation
3.  China Expands in the Yellow Sea (South Korea’s West Sea)
4. U.S. designates N. Korea as country not fully cooperating with U.S. counterterrorism efforts
5. Post-US-China truce, wiser for Seoul, Tokyo to take the long road
6. Asia without America, part 1: The cupboards are bare
7. The ten step plan to become a North Korea expert
8. Korean Marines to hold 1st joint drill with Japanese military in Philippines exercise: Reports
9. Korean Marine Corps denies reports on plan to hold joint drill with Japanese army in June
10. No. of N. Korea’s ICBMs may rise to 50 by 2035: U.S. intel report
11. Police deploy anti-sniper observation equipment to strengthen presidential candidates’ security
12. Nat’l Assembly seeks special counsel probe into Supreme Court over DP candidate’s retrial
13. DP candidate calls on PPP to expel ex-President Yoon from party
14. PPP appears to distance itself from ex-President Yoon
15. N. Korean youth face ideological training at border greenhouse construction
16. N. Korean officials face rare worker criticism at reclamation site
17. Navy eyes using commercial drones for military operations
18. Korea spared export hit after U.S.-China trade truce
19. 3-way presidential race heats up with economic pitches to moderates

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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