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12.12.2025 at 03:35pm
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National Security News:

1. The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year
2. Opinion | White House National-Security Strategy Reflects Vance’s Thinking
3. Golden Dome: A Special Operations Forces Overview
4. Exclusive | Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela
5. Opinion | Trump Says Chips Ahoy to Xi Jinping
6. Opinion | The Gaza Militias That Can Defeat Hamas
7. Why China may be better placed than US in tussle for rare earths
8. Ukraine Pitches Trump on Vision for Peace, but Tensions Over Territory Remain
9. Trump Says Ukraine Is Losing the War. Officers on the Front Line Disagree.
10. Seizure of Venezuelan Oil Strikes at the Heart of Maduro’s Grip on Power
11. Exclusive | Tibetan Activists Say China Has Detained Protesters Who Staged Rare Act of Defiance
12. US preparing to seize more tankers off Venezuela’s coast after first ship taken, sources say
13. ‘Enemy from within’? NORTHCOM commander says he hasn’t seen it
14. Army-Navy Gridiron Rivalry Points the Way for a More Civil Future
15. A drone ‘war is more silent and more deadly’ — and America is behind
16. China’s High-Flying Swarm Mothership Drone Has Flown
17. Drone Dominance in Contact: sUAS Challenges and Adaptations at the Brigade Level
18. Decline of Operational Art: The Story of A Strategic China Wargame
19. Public Health is the Future of Global Security
20. (When) Will Israel Attack Iran Again?
21. The Multipolar Mirage: Why America and China Are the World’s Only Great Powers
22. Trumps’ security strategy is making a hard pivot on China. Why now?
23. Top secret US report warns American forces would be drastically outmatched by China

 

Korean News:

1. U.S. reaffirms extended deterrence commitment to S. Korea under Trump’s 2nd term
2. N. Korea’s Kim touts policy of bolstering defense capabilities at key party meeting
3. Chinese drone assembly lines bound for North Korea raises questions on legality
4. [Editorial] Are US envoy and Trump on the same page about North Korea?
5. Hanwha plans to build US facility to manufacture modular 155mm howitzer charges
6. Why North Korea is modernising its conventional arsenal
7. N Korea’s Kim hails ‘ever-victorious’ army’s role in war against Ukraine
8. USFK commander stresses conditions over time period in wartime operational control transition
9. N. Korea’s Kim touts policy of bolstering defense capabilities at key party meeting
10.S. Korea, U.S. likely to launch regular consultations next week on N. Korea policy
11. S. Korea, U.S. hold SOFA committee meeting to discuss base protection, alliance issues
12. U.S. reaffirms extended deterrence commitment to S. Korea under Trump’s 2nd term
13. U.S., S. Korea, other partners to launch ‘Pax Silica’ coalition amid AI race with China
14. S. Korea, U.S. hold 1st Nuclear Consultative Group meeting under Trump’s 2nd term
15. Military exercises ‘critically important,’ U.S. Forces Korea commander says

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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