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11/9/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.09.2026 at 09:02pm
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National Security News:

1. Who Speaks for UW? Unconventional Warfare Isn’t Rejected. It Seldom Arrives. | Part 3 of 3 in the Why Unconventional Warfare? series
2. Denying the Martyr: Why Executing Nidal Hasan Is Not in the United States’ Strategic Interest
3. Inadvertent Supply Chains: U.S. Deportations and Russia’s Foreign Recruitment
4. Here Are the Difficult Options Trump Is Weighing to Resolve the War in Iran
5. State Department’s push to cancel hundreds of contracts left behind a trail of mistakes, watchdog finds
6. The Fridge-Hacking Spree Is an Internet-of-Things Wake-Up Call
7. Opinion | AI Saves the Day—and Could Bring Doom Tomorrow
8. Putin won’t be stopped in Ukraine until we understand his 1,000-year-old obsession
9. Rethinking Strategic Stability with China: From Coercion to Constructivism
10. Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang’s Relationship With Chinese Spy
11. These Maps Show the Gangs and Guerrillas Ruling More Than 200 Million People
12. SOF Weekly Brief – Nov 9, 2026
13. Close the Davidson Window: A Strategy of Distributed Deterrence for Taiwan
14. Democratic Congress to guard US’ Taiwan policy and press Trump on arms sales
15. A Recipe for Disaster in Taiwan: Why the Risk of a Crisis Is Growing
16. The New Epicenter of Global Terror: How Africa’s Weak States and Rare Earths Drive Transnational Extremism
17. The Iron Gate; U.S. confession of military failure

 

Korean News:

1.  What Washington owes the Korea U.S. alliance
2. ‘5th Military Power’ Illusion Erodes Combat Readiness
3. North Korea’s Abduction Apparatus: Intelligence Organizations and Institutional Reorganization
4. Japan PM vows breakthrough on N. Korea abduction issue
5. Russia used North Korean KN-23 missiles in Ukraine energy site strike: Zelensky
6. US blacklists Seychelles-based crypto exchange over North Korean laundering
7. N.K. official’s Beijing visit meant to share Chinese party meeting results, maintain high-level exchanges: Seoul
8. US says no changes in conditions for OPCON transfer: South Korean lawmaker
9. Deploying mine-hunting assets to anti-piracy unit meant to prepare for unseen threats: defense minister
10.  Defense chief signals potential shift in plans to integrate military academies

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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