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11/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.13.2026 at 06:28pm
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National Security News:

1. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Elevates Special Operations Leadership to Revitalize the Legacy of the Office of Strategic Services (See also Article #17)
2. Opinion | Ukraine Reports More SpaceX Disruptions
3. US Senators Press Pentagon and SpaceX Over Starshield Disruptions
4. Opinion | Ukraine’s New Defense Against Russian Drones
5. Navy unveils special warfare-themed uniforms for upcoming Army-Navy game
6. Iran’s New Cyber Playbook: Create Real-World Havoc
7. Vet groups accuse House Republicans of ‘sneaking’ benefits cuts through on Veterans Day
8. Putin Had Four Plans to Defeat Ukraine. He Only Has Two Left.
9. The Strait That Could Break the Pacific: The Interconnected Crisis No One Is Naming
10. The Infrastructure of Dependence: Starlink, Knowledge, and Sovereignty
11. The Case for a Trump-Xi-Putin Summit – Charles Kupchan
12. Pedro Sánchez: The World’s Last Chance for Peace
13. Combat Power, Sustained: A Hub-and-Mesh Architecture for Contested Logistics
14. ‘Robot Wars’: Defense One Futures, Ep. 1
15. China This Week: Governance Signals That Matter
16. College football’s soundtrack is fading. Where have the marching bands gone?
17. Hegseth seeks to elevate top SOF civilian to service-secretary equivalent

 

 

Korean News:

1. Minister of Defense “Meets the three conditions for wartime operational control transition…even right now”
2. Kim Jong Un Remakes North Korea’s Flag, Ditching Soviet-Era Version
3. U.S. obtains court approval to seize, restrain over US$1.2 bln stolen in N.K. Binance theft
4. U.S. disrupts North Korean fake video scheme tied to $400 million theft
5. North Korea faked Nov. 4 cluster warhead test, used doctored photos from 2022
6. S. Korea, U.N. discuss N. Korean nuclear issue, military AI
7. Kang Shin-chul’s ‘Perpetual Peace Theory’ vs. Kim Jong-un’s ‘Power is Peace’
8. Google complies with S. Korea’s security requirements for high-precision map data: gov’t
9. Seoul watches possible Trump-Xi-Putin summit at APEC
10. Three individuals get prison time for helping North Korea make gambling sites
11. Border smuggling halt forces North Koreans to farm tiny plots
12. Russia, North Korea to operate 14 trips daily on bus route over new bridge
13. [Editorial] Flawed academy merger

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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