1/20/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
01.20.2026 at 03:15pm
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National Security News:
1. Irregular Warfare and Competitive Statecraft: Reconceptualizing Relative Power
2. How the Exercise of American Power Is Changing Abroad — As Shared Rules Give Way to Gray Zone Unilateralism
3. Yes, America has classified directed energy weapons. No, they were not used on the Maduro raid.
4. The Iranian Protest Movement: Narrative Intelligence Detects the Ground Truths
5. Don’t expect Greenland crisis to realign EU with China, former US diplomat says
6. How narrowing China-US gap could reshape global power play by 2035
7. Money and might: How Trump’s second term is reshaping US-China relations
8. Taiwanese military’s closed-door meeting draws ‘black box’ criticism
9. ‘Woman on a mission’: Japan PM Takaichi bets on popularity and power in snap election, say analysts
10. Special Operations News – Jan 20, 2026
11. Trump to Hold Meeting on Greenland in Davos
12. Gingrich suggests Trump’s Greenland push just ‘a lot of noise’
13. Imperial Prerogative: How the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” Set the Stage for the Maduro “Snatch” Operation | National Security Archive
14. Opinion | Davos Men Create Hard Times
15. Opinion | Hit Iran in Its Shadow Bank Accounts
16. The Fleet of the 2030s, and the Ghost of Transformationalism
17. Trump’s Year of Anarchy
18. Chaos as Condition, Order as Achievement: Rethinking US Strategic Assumptions in Twenty-First-Century Interventions
19. Greenland Is Strategic. Annexation Is Not
20. Change or Just Cheating? Overhauling Professional Military Education for the AI Era
Korean News:
1. The Largest Small War (Korea)
2. Kim Jong Un fires vice premier “on the spot” ahead of party congress
3. ‘Leave while you still can’: Kim Jong Un fires vice premier at factory ceremony
4. North Korea-China trade surges 25% in 2025 to nearly reach pre-pandemic levels
5. Asia’s nuclear reckoning and the crisis of US deterrence
6. N. Korea’s Kim agreed to visit Seoul in 2018 but canceled day before announcement due to security concerns
7. South Korea’s academy merger debate is not the U.S. model
8. Trump’s BFF Kim Jong Un Is Panicking After Decapitation Drama
9. Column: Venezuela lessons for North Korea air defenses
10. 1,000 K2 Black Panther Tanks Have a Message for the Russian Army
11. North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says
12. Military advised to establish joint operations command to prepare for wartime control transfer
13. S. Korea says invited to Trump’s proposed peace board for Gaza11
14. China-ROK Relations on the Rebound?
15. 224 N. Korean defectors enter South last year, slightly down from 2024
