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8/5/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.05.2025 at 10:31pm
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National Security News Content:

1. U.S. Sells $1 Billion in Arms to Europe for Ukraine, Sealing Shift in Weapons Pipeline
2. India Defies Trump on Russian Oil Despite Tariff Threats
3. USINDOPACOM launches new manufacturing facility
4. New commission to examine how to create an independent Cyber Force
5. The Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook
6. When a Nation’s Response Follows Its Gross Failure to Protect: Rethinking Proportionality of Civilian Harm in Gaza and Beyond
7. Could Putin Take the Baltics?
8. After Xi – The Succession Question Obscuring China’s Future—and Unsettling Its Present
9. Israel Is Fighting a War It Cannot Win
10. America’s Defense Hinges on Making It Here
11. Technology, not geography, will grant global power in the 21st century
12. Lessons from this year’s unfunded priority lists
13. Opinion | How to shut down Putin’s war machine
14. As drones proliferate, the Army wants AI to help with air operations
15. Learn or Lose: Lessons from Ukrainian Training in Germany
16. Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
17. Ukrainian Unit Used Heavy Drone to Drop E-Bike to Encircled Soldier Behind Enemy Lines
18. Russia’s Shadow Fleet: The Dangerous Tanker Network Threatening Global Waters

 

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea Refuses to Claim Body of Dead Citizen Held by the South
2. Reviving the 1979 playbook: What NATO’s Cold War shift teaches the US-Japan-South Korea alliance
3. Pentagon policy chief calls S. Korea ‘role model’ for N. Korea deterrence, defense spending
4. No signs of N. Korea removing border loudspeakers against S. Korea: military
5. USAF Starts Building Second F-16 ‘Super Squadron’ in Korea
6.  U.S. not taking 90 pct of profit from Korean investment under tariff deal: industry minister
7. N. Korean delegation of prosecutors heads to Russia amid cooperation
8. White House official calls for choosing AI future aligned with U.S. technology
9. S. Korea-US tariff deal stalls on documentation amid interpretation gap
10. Seoul rushes to reaffirm stable Beijing ties after FM calls China ‘problematic’
11. Removal of loudspeakers
12. Daughter of Korean priest detained by ICE after visa hearing

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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