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11/18/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.18.2025 at 08:51pm
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National Security News:

1. “Cognitive Warfare” fails the cognitive test
2. Seven Contemporary Insights on the State of the War in Ukraine
3. Seizing the Initiative against Russia: Putting the United States in Control
4. Poland Says Rail Explosion Was ‘Unprecedented Act of Sabotage’
5. Poland sends forces to probe Ukraine rail link blown up in ‘sabotage’
6. What Happens if the Supreme Court Takes Trump’s Tariffs Away?
7. Security Council Backs Trump’s Plan for Postwar Gaza
8. Opinion | Why China Is Picking a Fight With Japan
9. Trump Says U.S. Intends to Sell F-35 Jet Fighters to Saudi Arabia
10. Donald Trump’s Venezuela Military Build Up Is Just Art of the Deal Geopolitics
11. SOF News: A-29 Drone Fighter and More Drone News
12. Taiwan’s Lexington Without Concord: Sovereignty, Resilience, and the Price of War
13. The pilot of an F-22 just controlled a drone wingman in flight
14. Proxies in Hybrid Operations: Insights from the Partnership for Peace Consortium Workshop | Helsinki, Finland, August 2025
15. Replicator 3 Should Be the Sustainment Revolution
16. The Hidden Cost of a Missile: Why the Headlines Get Cost Wrong
17. Pentagon vulnerable to malicious use of publicly available info, GAO finds

 

Korean News:

1. What ‘east-up’ map really means for future role of USFK
2. N. Korea slams S. Korea-U.S. fact sheet as formalizing confrontational stance against Pyongyang
3. Pompeo says N.K. denuclearization will only happen with Xi’s ‘permission,’ no carrots to convince it
4. N. Korea says U.S. approval of S. Korea’s nuclear subs drive will spark ‘nuclear domino’
5. Presidential office says S. Korea has no hostile intent toward N. Korea
6. FM Cho calls nuclear-free Korean Peninsula ‘imperative’ never to be abandoned
7. Defense ministry to create deputy minister post overseeing AI policy
8. PM says task force to probe officials’ involvement in martial law ‘inevitable’
8. Tariff deal with U.S. ‘significantly’ reduces economic uncertainty for S. Korea: BOK chief
9. Construction of world’s 1st CVD graphene film plant completed in S. Korea
11. Officials to visit wartime coal mine in Japan to help recover remains of Korean forced laborers
12. USFK ‘east-up’ map
13. N. Korea unlikely to respond to S. Korea’s proposal for military talks: experts

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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