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12/9/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.09.2025 at 04:49pm
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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. (Fact Sheet)THE FY26 NDAA: IMPLEMENTING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH AGENDA
2. Trump’s National-Security Strategy Softens Language on China
3. Opinion | Introducing the ‘Trump Corollary’
4. Congress Moves to Restrain Trump in Annual Defense Policy Bill
5. Trump Backs Away From Pledge to Release Boat-Strike Video
6. A Data-Centric Analysis of the 2025 National Security Strategy
7. Opinion | A Trump Doctrine of Contradictions
8. How Much Abuse Can America’s Allies Take?
9. Trump’s Power Paradox – What Kind of World Order Does His National Security Strategy Seek?
10. Sinking speedboats with a supercarrier: the lopsided cost of Operation Southern Spear
11. Details of a Botched Caribbean Strike Take Shape
12. Why Many Underestimated Russia’s Invasion Risk
13. Ukraine’s Revolution in Warfare: Three Takeaways the U.S. Army Can’t Ignore
14. As Congress tries to claw back power, the president can still wage war unilaterally
15. The Reconnaissance Reality Gap: Western Doctrine vs. the Ukrainian Battlefield
16. Testing Willpower: How China Might Target Californians’ Resolve During a Quarantine or Blockade of Taiwan
17. Army Special Forces Embracing Robots in All Domains
18. The Danger Isn’t Technology. It’s Us.
19. Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Needs to Reinvent Itself

Korean News:

1. (Fact Sheet)THE FY26 NDAA: IMPLEMENTING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH AGENDA
2. A Data-Centric Analysis of the 2025 National Security Strategy
3. The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy and the ROK-U.S. Alliance
4. Breaking the North Korea-Russia Missile Axis
5. South Korea isn’t crazy about US-led anti-China bloc
6. 9 Chinese, Russian military aircraft briefly enter S. Korea’s air defense zone: JCS
7. N. Korea may stipulate Kim Jong-un’s guiding ideology in party charter at congress: expert
8. Adjusting S. Korea-U.S. joint drills may be discussed if conditions are met: unification ministry

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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