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1/25/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.25.2026 at 07:24pm
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National Security News:

1. How a plain-language pamphlet created America’s revolutionary mindset
2. The First Three Weeks of the Year Will Reshape the World
3. China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes
4. China’s Xi Places His Top General Under Investigation as Military Purges Heat Up
5. Opinion | A Serious Defense Budget, at Last
6. What Xi Jinping’s purge of China’s most senior general reveals
7. How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising With Lethal Force
8. Tory peers force UK to pause passage of Chagos Islands bill after US criticism
9. An Unlikely Source of Crypto Innovation: Afghanistan
10. AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
11. The Future of War – When States No Longer Own The Means of War
12. Trilateral Shipbuilding: Build a Missile Corvette Fleet with Asian Allies
13. The fear of spheres (of influence)
14. Trump at Davos marked start of a new world era
15. Modern Warfare and Risk
16. Trump, Interventions, and Regimes to Topple
17. America Can’t Win the AI Race by Retreating
18. From hardware to intelligence: the operating system powering next-generation robotics
19. Book review: Tim Cook’s The Good Allies
20. An Ambassador’s Journal By David Scheffer of Arizona State University

Korean News:

1. How a plain-language pamphlet created America’s revolutionary mindset
2. Pentagon officially announces Colby’s trip to S. Korea, Japan following NDS release
3. Editorial: Shift in USFK’s Role Inevitable; South Korea Must Find Urgent Countermeasures
4. New US defense strategy shifts alliance roles, puts focus on OPCON transfer
5. Kim, Vance establish hotline to prevent misunderstandings over Coupang issue
6. [Exclusive] Osan Air Base security measure raises data breach concerns
7. The Impact of the US National Security Strategy’s Blind Spot on North Korea
8. How North Korea Uses an 80-Year-Old Youth Group to Control Society
9. The Domestic Impediment to Lee Jae-myung’s North Korea Policy
10. Japan and South Korea: Competition and Cooperation

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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