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11/5/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.05.2026 at 07:55pm
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National Security News:

1. EXCLUSIVE: House China committee pushes Air Force on think tank cuts
2. U.S. Was Unprepared for Drone Warfare, Pentagon’s Emil Michael Says
3. The Election Day Revolt That Threatens America’s AI Boom
4. The Illusion of Distance: Why Retreating to the Second Island Chain Surrenders the Pacific
5. Selling F-35s to Saudi Arabia and Turkey is a Historic Opportunity
6. 2 women advanced further in Navy SEAL tryouts than any in history
7. Saudi Arabia Has No Easy Choices as It Weighs How to Combat Houthi Threat
8. Ending a War With Iran’s Regime Does Not Necessarily Mean Peace
9. Can China tame its war machine?
10. US intelligence sharing has fractured under Trump, officials say
11. Who Repairs the Internet in Wartime?
12. Whoever Controls the Water May Decide the Next War
13. How the Army Fights (a Maritime War in the Pacific)
14. Want Better Training Outcomes? Let the Opposing Force Win
15. China’s Economics of Denial: Beijing’s Theory of Success in the Face of Failure
16. The New Congress Can Repair Civil-Military Relations – How It Can Reclaim Its Constitutional Powers
17. Liddell Hart – Now More Than Ever – truth, friction, and the well-rooted view forward
18. Will New Laws Finally End Human Rights Abuses in Asia’s Factories?

 

Korean News:

1. The blind fury of Kim Yo-jong: The world’s top human trafficker preaches on ‘human rights’
2. Where Korea begins
3. The Illusion of Distance: Why Retreating to the Second Island Chain Surrenders the Pacific
4. North Korea’s State of Play in the Russia-Ukraine War
5. Why I Founded the North Korean Young Leaders Assembly – Hyunseung Lee
6. [Exclusive] S. Korea scales back Aegis patrols in East Sea, raising concerns over North Korean missile analysis
7. North Korea tests new air defense system, strategic cruise missile
8. North Korea tests anti-aircraft missiles, conducts attack drill on airport: KCNA
9. Soft Reveal of New North Korean Stealth Strategic UAV
10. Uptick in North Korean ships at Russian port suggests coal smuggling scheme
11. North Korea sends senior party delegation to Beijing
12. North Korea taps young AI talent to stoke division in the South
13. Weakened at home, ambitious abroad: Could Trump revive diplomacy with Kim Jong-un?
14. COVER STORY Seoul to send anti-piracy unit closer to Hormuz, add mine-clearing team
15. Seoul vows close consultation with Washington after midterms for key bilateral issues

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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