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10/14/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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10.14.2026 at 07:00pm

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National Security News:

1. U.S. Defense Startups Flock to Taiwan to Build China-Free Drones
2. Drone Attacks on Ships Sailing Near NATO Waters Present Fresh Threat for the Alliance
3. Opinion | Pass Trump’s Defense Budget
4. Ukraine Can Turn Imminent Peril to Its Advantage
5. Why U.S. Airstrikes Are Failing to Stop the Global Cocaine Boom
6. Houthi Strike Hits Building at Saudi Aramco Headquarters
7. Zelensky to Visit U.K. as Ukraine Presses Allies on Intelligence Sharing
8. Ukraine Says New Limits on Starlink Are Disrupting Its Military Operations
9. As force exposure becomes perilous, wars become long
10. China’s Next Frontier: How Beijing Is Challenging Washington in Outer Space
11. Dispatch from Killhouse: Ukraine’s Lessons for US Army Drone Training
12. LaNeve ‘redesignates’ Army’s Futures and Concepts Command as new FASCOM autonomy command
13. Counter-Drone Weapons Have Arrived
14. The Perfect Storm: El Niño, Food Insecurity, and the Risk of Political Instability: Getting Left of the Crisis Through Food-Security Early Warning
15. The Pentagon Wants to ‘Optimize’ Service Members. Will Testosterone Make Them Better Warfighters?
16. Different suppressors for training, combat? Sig Sauer offers new way to reduce toxic fumes
17. US Army suspends longtime hometown recruiter assistance program, faces cancellation

 

Korean News:

1. Brunson: “North Korean Military Strengthening Strategic Capabilities Through Deployment to Russia”
2. U.S. commander calls for dispersed military drills in South Korea
3. S. Korea, U.S. agree to hold key defense talks after midterm elections: sources
4. Design the Alliance to Win: Beyond the OPCON Debate
5. Drones and Missiles Are Rewriting the Military Balance on the Korean Peninsula
6. F.B.I. Disrupts Pyongyang Revenue Stream: North Koreans in U.S. Tech Jobs
7. While Trump Floats a Kim Meeting, North Korea Flaunts Its U.S.-Range Missiles
8. Did fuel leave South Korea for Russia? Records raise questions, but proof remains elusive.
9. Allegedly NIS-linked Moscow trip raises eyebrows over Seoul’s Russia outreach, friction with Washington
10. A new bridge linking China and North Korea will open more than a decade late
11. Defense chief visits Gwangju air base amid planned relocation for chip project
12. A Movie About a Political Killing Fuels South Korea’s Culture Wars
13. Parliamentary committee adopts resolution denouncing N. Korea over DMZ mine blast
14. Trump’s doubts about U.S. troops in Korea isn’t halting training on peninsula, top Army general says

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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