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10/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.13.2026 at 04:44pm
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National Security News:

1. The Real Lesson of the Iran War: When Airpower Wins, and When It Doesn’t
2. The Mystery of the Unknown Sailor Who Inspired Trump to Shake Up the Navy
3. Iran Is Fortifying Nuclear Sites and Rallying Its People for a Return to Fighting
4. How Taiwan Activates Beijing’s Chosen Fear
5. Opinion | Russia, Iran and Trump’s Shock-and-Awe Foreign Policy
6. Opinion | ‘Make the problem and the solution bigger’: The plan to end the Ukraine war
7. Opinion | Trump is pressuring the wrong side in Ukraine
8. The Global AI Bust: What Will Survive When the Boom Ends
9. From Transformation to Containment: The Iran War’s Lesson for Campaign Design
10. Doors of Perception: Synergy Between Cognitive Warfare and Human Security
11. Fixing the Army’s MDMP Fixation
12. ‘Phantom’ Data Centers Are Demanding More From the Power Grid Than They Need
13. ‘We’ve drowned ourselves in buzzwords’: Acting US Army secretary gives sermon-like first speech
14. Japan, US review troops’ off-duty rules after Okinawa killing
15. Building an Arsenal That Survives the Tenth Salvo
16. US threatens to cut intel sharing, arms shipments to Ukraine to protect Russian oil refineries, sources confirm
17. The Next Drone Won’t Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now
18. SOF Weekly Brief – Oct 13, 2026

 

Korean News:

1. Former U.S. commander warns of gaps in wartime command transfer
2. A mine, a missile and a sealed border
3. Exclusive: North Korean army video says K-drama watchers deserve to be executed
4. Priorities of the Lee Jae-myung Government: A New Budget Item “Strategic Cooperation with China” Created, While the Budgets for Korea-US Alliance, Defectors, Denuclearization of North Korea Fall for 2027
5. American Army forces in South Korea adapting to new drone threats
6. How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ
7. North Korea’s Kim showcases missile capable of reaching US as Trump signals possible meeting
8. South Korea’s Lee welcomes home Arctic container ship as route faces viability tests
9. Explosions heard across border island likely tied to N. Korea’s coastal reinforcement: S. Korean military
10. North Korea says ‘tactical’ ballistic missile test confirms key upgrade
11. OPCON transfer: Is Seoul prepared to pay the price?
12. Unification minister rejects blame for US alliance tensions
13. Unification minister becomes liability for Lee
14. Presidential office forms task force for potential Lee-Trump golf outing
15. Trump says he ‘may’ meet N. Korean leader Kim during upcoming Asia trip

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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