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6/5/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.05.2025 at 01:20pm

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National Security News Content:

1. OSS Reimagined: The Case for a 21st-Century Strategic Integration Force
2. How the Houthis Rattled the U.S. Navy—and Transformed Maritime War
3. U.S. Is Redirecting Critical Antidrone Technology From Ukraine to U.S. Forces
4. The Future of War Is Happening Right Now in Ukraine
5. Ukraine’s Attack Exposed America’s Achilles’ Heel
6. Ukrainian drone strikes show up Australia’s out-of-date defences by Mick Ryan
7. Ex-FBI boss reveals sleeper threat: ‘It could lead to the next 9/11’
8. The Ukrainian Spy Agency Behind the Stunning Strike on Russia’s Bomber Fleet
9. Inside Operation Spider’s Web: What Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian airfields revealed about modern warfare.
10. Trump names nominees to take over Middle East, Africa commands
11. Trial by fire: Chinese laser weapon reputedly in Russian service
12. Former Green Beret nominated to top Pentagon position to oversee special ops
13. Namibia At The Crossroads: Strategic Stake In The America-China Trade War
14. Trump must resist WHO’s pandemic power-grab
15. US troop presence in Syria will be reduced to a single base, envoy says
16. Confirmed Losses Of Russian Aircraft Mount After Ukrainian Drone Assault
17. ‘We need your creative, innovative, patriotic, and diabolical minds’: Joint Chiefs Chairman Caine
18. Army leaders need to show their ‘homework’ for transformation plans, lawmakers say
19. Sustaining an Indo-Pacific Fight: The Contested Logistics Triad
20. World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacre
21. Why Some U.S. Military Advising Missions Succeed—and Others Don’t
22. Notes from History for Surviving the Trade War
23. Turning the Lens Inward: A New Frame for Great Power Competition
24. Special Operations & Intelligence—A Strategic Convergence
25. Small Craft, Big Impact: Ukraine’s Naval War and the Rise of New-Tech Warships
26. Strategic Humility — The New Pentagon Doctrine
27. Europe Doesn’t Have a China Card
28. America and Israel Follow the Same Old Script

Korean News Content:

1. FULL TEXT Lee Jae-myung’s inaugural speech
2. South Korea faces a reckoning: Political dysfunction, moral drift and the path to unification
3. South Korea needs a content strategy!
4. Experts react: What does South Korean President Lee Jae-myung mean for Indo-Pacific security?
5. Will South Korea’s new president restart dialogue with North Korea?
6. Lee Jae-myung takes the helm of a fractured and unmoored Korea
7. S. Korea views White House comments about Chinese interference unrelated to election: official
8.N. Korea’s state media reports on Lee’s presidential win for 1st time
9. N. Korea’s Kim vows unconditional support for Russia over war against Ukraine
10. The Significance of the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on North Korean Human Rights
11. 4 N. Koreans on wooden boat cross maritime border in East Sea: military
12. Some North Koreans ‘cynical’ about South Korea’s new president
13. North Korean defectors call on President Lee to “show sincerity on North Korean human rights”
14. A smuggled North Korean smartphone reveals how the regime censors information
15. Lee appoints DP’s think tank head to lead policy planning committee
16. South Korea’s New Leader Name Checks North Korea but Not China
17. A look at South Korea’s surreal, sizzling election-night TV graphics

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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