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1/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.23.2026 at 04:42pm
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National Security News:

1. The West Stepped Back From the Brink. But Europe’s Distrust of America Lingers.
2. China Sees a Chance to Lure Jaded U.S. Allies
3. Opinion | Why Putin Was Rooting for a U.S. Invasion of Greenland
4. The Arctic Smokescreen: The most dangerous mistake about “Greenland  is believing it is about Greenland.
5. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
6. Artificial Intelligence and a Reconfiguration of Military Power
7. The Arctic is a Strategic Distraction
8. Theater Army Planning Questions for Joint All-Domain and Multi-Domain Operations
9. The School of Advanced Military Studies: Educated to Win
10. The End of Battlefield Secrets: Addressing the OSINT Gap in U.S. Special Operations
11. Politics, Ethics, and the Human Being in the Culture of Ukraine
12. Remarks by NATO Secretary General at World Economic Forum, Davos
13. TikTok Finalizes Deal to Keep Operating in the U.S.
14. The Closing of the Marine Corps Mind? Strategy, Credentialism, and the Pursuit of Intellectual Depth

Korean News:

1. Peace with North Korea Is a fantasy, not pragmatism
2. S. Korea warns NATO of North Korea cyber, space threats
3. Greenland framework’s lessons for the ROK-US alliance
4. Peace through pragmatism, not illusion
5. How spies from both North and South Korea targeted a human rights advocate
6. North Korea replaces “socialist fatherland” with Kim Jong Un’s name on classroom bulletin boards
7. North Korea’s snow-covered military runways reveal air force weaknesses
8. 3 civilian suspects banned from leaving nation over alleged drone flights to N. Korea
9. Korea battery makers chase solid-state and sodium-ion tech
10. Book review: The untold story of Kim Jong Un’s Japan-born mother

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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