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4/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.23.2026 at 09:06pm
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National Security News:

1. US commander says Iran war success crucial for deterrence in Asia
2. Air War in Iran Gives Way to Crippling Stalemate in Hormuz
3. US aggression risks pushing a cornered Iran towards a global shadow war
4.The Strait of Hormuz is today’s energy chokepoint. China is tomorrow’s.
5. US Officials Voice Concerns Over China, Pacific ‘Denial Defense’
6. Iran Conflict Holds Lessons for U.S., Adversaries, INDOPACOM Commander Says
7. Pete Hegseth Fires Navy Secretary John Phelan
8. Opinion | Turning the Tables on Iranian Drones
9. FBI ‘spooked’ by sophisticated theft of agricultural drones in New Jersey
10. Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells Congress
11. Opinion | Trump doesn’t need a deal to get what he wants from Iran
12. Washington’s ‘psyop’ propaganda push could backfire, analysts say
13. Chinese military experts take stock of US munitions weak spot exposed by Iran war
14. US visa system ‘rolls out red carpet’ for Chinese spies, congressional hearing told
15. Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.
16. America Can Reopen the Strait – Here’s How by Dennis Blair
17. Unrestricted Warfare Without War: China’s Below-Threshold Strategy in Latin America
18. Little Bighorn and the Enduring Lessons of Irregular Warfare
19. Trump orders Navy to ‘shoot and kill any boat’ laying mines in Hormuz Strait
20. What Does Landpower Bring to an Air and Naval Fight?
21. A Formal Defense Pact in the Indo-Pacific Is the Wrong Answer
22. Seeing the Cyber in Economic Statecraft

Korean News:

1. USFK aims to transfer wartime operational control to ROK by 2029, commander says
2. S. Korea, U.S. aim to meet OPCON transfer conditions no later than Q1 of 2029: USFK commander
3. USFK commander against withdrawing troops, expects Opcon transfer by early 2029
4. USFK chief cautions on OPCON transfer timeline
5. Timeline for OPCON transfer to be set in annual defense talks in October: Seoul
6. Does USFK chief’s OPCON timeline signal smaller US role?
7. US military looks to make Korea regional hub for equipment repair
8. US hasn’t protested over minister’s remarks on North Korean nuke facility: Seoul
9. N. Korea’s Kusong comes into spotlight as little-known but long-suspected nuclear facility site
10.Vietnam’s top leader welcomes Korean firms’ participation in nuclear power plans: security adviser

About The Author

  • David Maxwell

    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 the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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