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5/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.28.2026 at 04:39pm
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National Security News:

1. The Rise of a Hardline Four-Star General Tipped to Be the Next Army Chief
2. Trump’s Least Bad Option in Iran: The Logic Behind a Limited Deal
3. How Japan Should Spend Its Soaring Defense Budget
4. What a US defence industry trip to Taiwan says about Taipei’s efforts to overhaul military
5. The Coming Crisis of NATO Deterrence:Nuclear Guarantees Cannot Replace U.S. Forces in Europe
6. A Quagmire of Trump’s Own Making
7. House NDAA draft would limit Trump’s troop cuts, battleship plans
8. Missile Defense, The Future of Arms Control, and the Three-Body Problem
9. Prosecutors say ex-CIA official stole $40 million in gold bars from agency
10. The Jedi Knights Were Never Enough: Toward a Theory of Theater-Strategic Art in the Age of Compound Security.
11. When Strategy Becomes Heresy: FA59, Civil-Military Dysfunction, and the Deliberate Devaluation of Strategic Thought in America.
12. TMS Shows Early Promise for Treating Treatment-Resistant PTSD in Veterans
13. Hardwired Repression: Data Centers, Global Technology, and China’s Surveillance Infrastructure in the Uyghur Region
14. Closing the Gap Between Threat and Rival
15. AI is testing global energy grids. China wants it to help fix the problem
16. China’s top military officials face ‘ironclad’ rules in anti-corruption fight
17. Japan and Philippines agree to elevate ties to new level amid China concerns
18. Operationally Detached: Why Decentralization, Not Consolidation, Is the Future of U.S. Army Special Forces Why Special Forces Decentralization, Not Tech, Is the Future of SF

Korean News:

1. What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy
2. A championship prize must not become a weapon for North Korea
3. Chinese Embassy criticizes USFK chief’s remarks describing S. Korea as ‘dagger’ in Asia
4. China Needs North Korea on Its Side
5. Seoul denies OPCON transfer will lead to dissolution of joint US-ROK command
6. North Korea is marching deeper into Moscow’s orbit, and aims to stay
7. Unification minister to be probed over alleged leak of N. Korean nuclear info
8. N. Korea slams Quad statement calling for Pyongyang’s denuclearization
9. Court denies arrest warrant for Chinese dissident who fled to S. Korea by sea
10. S. Korea stages live-fire drills involving advanced, homegrown assets
11. Iran-linked missile strike leaves Korea with few options, analysts warn
12. Singaporean Foreign Minister Posts Pyongyang Development Video

About The Author

  • Dave 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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