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6/12/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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06.12.2026 at 05:33pm
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National Security News:

1. Ukraine has taught the world how to kill again
2. SASC’s $1.14T defense policy bill creates combatant command for drones
3. Reforge the Beret: Special Forces and the Education Cognitive Warfare Demands
4. 2-front war with Russia and China would require new US basing strategy, report says
5. Pentagon announces ‘Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay’
6. Military Science and the Intellectual Foundations of War
7. The Purge of Strategic Thought: From Svechin to the Jedi Knights to Theater-Strategic Art, Or, … Why Great Military Institutions Often Suppress the Ideas They Most Need.
8. NEXUS Experimentation: A Case for Space-SOF-Cyber Designs in Trans-Regional, Multi-Domain, Dynamic Security Contests
9. Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests
10. Trump’s Sharp Turn on China: Embracing It as a Peer Power
11. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
12. Trump Says Iran Deal Is Close but Tehran Says No Decision Has Been Made
13. Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
14. Amazon Says Its Data Centers Used 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025
15. Drone use poised to soar as FAA homes in on rule change allowing pilots to fly them out of sight
16. What a US lawyer’s diaries show about prosecuting Japanese atrocities of Nanking massacre
17. Critical Undersea Infrastructure, ISR Fusion, and NATO Decision Latency on Germany’s Northern Flank
18. More than Just Another Echelon: Defining the Division’s Function in Large-Scale Combat Operations
19. The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence

 

Korean News:

1. N. Korea’s Kim reaffirms alliance with Russia in letter to Putin
2. Former S. Korean President Yoon sentenced to 30 years in drone case
3. Half of S. Korea’s young adults view N. Korea with hostility: poll
4. The world’s poor unification record doesn’t bode well for the two Koreas
5. China Reasserts Influence On The Korean Peninsula – OpEd
6. Why it’s harder for China to keep North Korea in line
7. Unification ministry pledges peace after Yoon convicted in N. Korea drone case
8. Nvidia hugs Seoul while Beijing builds its own wall
9. Why Was Xi Jinping in North Korea?
10. Xi’s visit to Pyongyang did not revive denuclearisation diplomacy – it buried it
11. Editorial: South Korea Silences EU’s North Korea Condemnation in Joint Statement
12. Jeju’s ‘Vitamin C diplomacy’ revives a dormant model of North Korea engagement
13. UAE sends military planes to S. Korea to transport Cheongung missile systems: sources
14. Air Force begins regular Soaring Eagle exercise

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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