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11/10/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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11.10.2026 at 06:27pm
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National Security News:

1. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Orders Sweeping Overhaul of Military Education to Refocus on Combat Lethality
2. Hegseth to cut civilians from military service colleges, wants focus on ‘victory’
3. How Jensen Huang’s Affair Spiraled Into a National Security Nightmare
4. I Was at the 2009 Fort Hood Shooting. Here’s What I Saw by Scott Gerber
5. Nvidia Chief Told Trump He Did Not Know Chinese Woman Was Suspected Spy
6. The Cameras Watching Your Car
7. The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
8. AI systems indirectly endangering US troops, turning them into easy targets for enemy drones
9. Is the PLA rehearsing operations to keep US forces out of a Taiwan conflict?
10. Neros to expand domestic drone production with $450M Pentagon loan
11. U.S. special forces want a helmet display with drone control
12. A Breach in the Army’s Engineer Priorities
13. Sarajevo and Vukovar to Kharkiv and Mariupol: The Evolution of Urbicide in Modern Warfare
14. Winning Time: Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces and the New Dimension of War
15. To Implement Acquisition Transformation, Empower Military Mavericks
16. It’s Time to Debate How the Army Fights
17. China’s AI Diplomacy Is Working And America Should Be Taking Notes
18. A Real-Life Lioness on Taylor Sheridan’s Depiction of Women in Combat

 

Korean News:

1. North Korea’s Arming of the Revisionist Middle East: How Effective?
2. Double escalation by Russia and North Korea and their end goals
3. The 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Implications for OPCON Transition and Seoul’s Nuclear Pursuits
4. Kim Yo Jong rejects U.N. chief’s call for inter-Korean dialogue
5. Former Foreign Minister Warns U.S. Demands on South Korea to Persist Regardless of Administration
6. From trade-war chip to U.S. Navy shipbuilder
7. Top U.S. envoy says American firms in S. Korea deserve to compete on ‘level playing field’
8. N. Korea’s nuclear power recognition demand could hinder prospects for Trump-Kim summit: ex-U.S. official
9. ‘Like gods reigning over humans’: Many defectors see daughter of North Korea’s Kim as heir apparent
10. Democrats can’t stop a Trump-Kim summit but could limit deal with North Korea
11. South Korea’s defense chief signals military academy plan changes
12. Defense chief reiterates need to integrate military academies
13. North Korea says navy to deploy new ‘high-speed torpedo’ in early 2027
14. Editorial: Retaliation-Driven Military Integration Unravels, Time to Halt
15. The meaning of US midterm elections

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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