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5/14/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.14.2026 at 11:35pm
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National Security News:

1. Xi’s Taiwan Warning to Trump Highlights Tensions in Beijing Summit
2. Pentagon Abruptly Cancels Deployment to Europe as Part of Trump’s Drawdown
3. Military Snipers Are Being Put Out of a Job by Drones
4. The China Gambit: From Nixon to Trump
5. Gen. Caine’s Silence on Iran War Leaves Questions About Military Strategy
6. Niall Ferguson: Trump Wants Détente. Xi Wants Taiwan.
7. Anduril’s Dive-XL Is Basically An Autonomous Underwater Freight Truck
8. China gains major edge on U.S. amid Iran war, intelligence report finds
9. Army cuts training as service is short billions of dollars
10. Discontent Is Not Revolution: What the Bay of Pigs Still Teaches Us About Cuba
11. Hellscape Defense in Taiwan: Would It Work?
12. From Coal to Code to Reactors: How Wyoming’s State and Local Decisions Shape Irregular Warfare Why Wyoming is the Quiet Front Line of Strategic Competition
13. Cyber Operations Aren’t Slow — Our Thinking Is
14. While the War Continues in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s Real Battlefield is at Home
15. The Missing Navies: The Hormuz Crisis and the Limits of America’s Indo-Pacific Partnerships
16. America Has Lost Its Leverage Over China
17. China Was Ready for the Age of Anarchy

Korean News:

1. The Military Imperative for OPCON Transfer
2. U.N. commissioner says engagement with North Korea must focus on rights
2. U.S. says THAAD interceptor missile transfer from S. Korea was planned
3. The Missing Navies: The Hormuz Crisis and the Limits of America’s Indo-Pacific Partnerships
4. SK Telecom, defense ministry team up to develop military AI model
5. Lee calls S. Korea, U.S. ‘most important partners’ after meeting with Bessent
6. S. Korea seeks OPCON transfer breakthrough via presidential office-level talks: source
7. Ex-POWs win damages suit against N. Korea for 3rd time
8. 2 Chinese nationals sentenced to prison for filming Korean, U.S. air bases
9. U.S. Senate to hold confirmation hearing for ambassador nominee to S. Korea next week
10. NK-linked hackers using AI to develop malware targeting S. Korean gov’t system: report
11. Why Korea and Europe are ideal partners in defense industry

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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