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11/6/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.06.2026 at 06:19pm
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National Security News:

1. A Drone Maimed a Ukrainian Army Private. Could a Drone Also Save Him?
2. AI Companies Scramble to Navigate a World Hostile to Data Centers
3. Korea, Taiwan and Japan take first jolt from Democratic AI shock
4. To Cross the Red Sea, Shippers Email Houthi Rebels. Read Their Inbox.
5. U.S. Finds Subdued Foreign Meddling Operations in Midterm Elections
6. A Summit in China With Trump and Putin? That Might be Awkward for Xi.
7. China Crossed a Military Satellite Threshold the Pentagon’s Own Count Can’t Capture: Nine Ship-Tracking Spacecraft Now Blanket the Indo-Pacific
8. Defense Primer on U.S. Special Operations Forces
9. U.S. shipbuilding crisis deepens as Navy expansion outpaces capacity
10. Democratic Congress unlikely to reshape U.S. policy toward Asia
11. Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for ‘with blood’
12. ‘Knives out’ at Pentagon after unpopular Iran war dooms GOP in midterms
13. Ukraine deploys experimental military satellite to replace reliance on commercial networks
14. Expanding Taiwan’s Resistance Area Complex by way of Japan and the Philippines
15. Buy, Don’t Steal: The Economics of Cognitive Warfare
16. The Army Is Connecting Its Apps. Who Authorizes Their Actions?
17. Can Washington and China Build Confidence Around AI and Stability?
18. Pentagon sued over its Project Meridian advisory committee
19. The True Meaning of Power: What the Godfather of Realism Can Teach Trump

 

Korean News:

1. Key lessons Korea should learn from US midterm elections
2. Hyunseung Lee on Kim Jong Un death rumors and North Korea’s succession
3. Kim Jong-un’s death rumors: More than just a false alarm
4. Fearing a slip, North Koreans avoid saying “unification”
5. Korea, Taiwan and Japan take first jolt from Democratic AI shock
6. U.S. shipbuilding crisis deepens as Navy expansion outpaces capacity
7. USFK chief, Japanese defense minister discuss regional defense cooperation
8. South Korean arms review committee approves plan for nuclear-powered submarine project
9. China’s Wang Yi meets North Korean official, vows closer ties
10. South Korea plans to expand naval mission toward Strait of Hormuz
11. Why a road link to Russia is North Korea’s newest ‘bridge to nowhere’
12. [Editorial] Reframing drone defense
13. How actor Lanny Joon brought Call of Duty’s North Korean character to life

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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