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4/20/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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04.20.2025 at 05:16pm

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National Security News Content:

1. The Naval Academy Canceled My Lecture on Wisdom
2. JFK’s legacy endures with induction as Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment
3. China Calls Out NSA in Bold Cyber Claims—But What’s the Endgame?
4. Wannabe GI Jane sues Navy after her dream of becoming first female SEAL comes to a crashing end over age
5. Trump Administration Draft Order Calls for Drastic Overhaul of State Department
6. New Thinking Needed on National Defense
7. To Counter China in Southeast Asia, Take Indonesia Seriously
8. Leveraging the Force We Have with Modified Concepts of Operations
9. The Latticework: Indo-Pacific Security Moves Beyond US Naval Primacy
10. UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING: A FIRST STEP
11. Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop ‘Disinformation.’ Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them.
12. No, the President Has Not Defied a Supreme Court Ruling
13. Taiwan a critical US partner: Schriver
14. China’s military pressure near Taiwan is up 300 percent: What it means for the US
15. China tests non-nuclear hydrogen bomb, science paper shows
16. The Danger of a Trump Doctrine for Taiwan
17. Southeast Asia’s Quiet Revolt Against the Dollar: Should the US Be Worried?
18. Trump’s Courage to Fight
19. Actions create consequences: time and diplomacy by Cynthia Watson
20. Why I resigned in protest from National Defense University

Korean News Content:

1. The Martial Law Crisis: How Military Disobedience Helped Save South Korea’s Democracy
2. The ‘Trump Doctrine’ and South Korea’s Geopolitical Balancing Act
3. Shipbuilding and theFuture of U.S. Sea Power: The Role of South Korea and Japan in the Rejuvenation of the American Fleet
4. South Korean crypto emerges from failed coup into crackdown season
5. S. Korea, U.S. to hold ‘2+2’ trade consultation of finance, trade ministers this week
6. Industry minister says will put ‘consultations before hasty deal’ in U.S. tariff talks
7. N. Korea criticizes Trump’s easing of U.S. weapons exports
8. Air Force grounds most aircraft after gun pods accidentally drop
9. Former DP leader Lee wins southeastern region’s primary for presidential election
10. Incheon airport ranks 3rd in int’l passenger traffic last year
11. Exclusive: South Korea protests China’s fixed offshore platform in Yellow Sea

About The Author

  • 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 a contributing editor to Small Wars Journal.

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