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2/7/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.07.2026 at 05:19pm
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National Security News:

1. New U.S. Arms Export Policy Boosts Production of Weapons Important to Pentagon
2. Establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy
3. Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the America First Arms Transfer Strategy
4. Logistics Left of Boom: Understanding Adversary Threats to the Defense Industrial Base Ahead of Conflict
5. China’s military vows to improve scrutiny of training after fall of Zhang Youxia
6. After Greenland
7. How Europe could lose the war over Greenland
8. Squeezed by U.S. and China, the World’s Middle Powers Are Teaming Up
9. Beyond propaganda: How Russia wages cognitive war against the West
10. “Cognitive warfare”: why the human brain should not become a battlefield
11. As Promised, War Department Moving Out Fast on Drone Dominance
12. War Department Cuts Ties With Harvard University
13. Attacking Russia’s Center of Gravity: A Clausewitzian Answer
14. Canadian female fighter at the forefront of Ukraine’s drone war
15. Anduril founder says U.S. can spend billions less on defense: We ‘spend too much money on the wrong thing’
16. SOCOM exploring how AI can make it easier to survey key overseas facilities
17. Coast Guard Special Forces Explained: Title 14 Law Enforcement Powers on the High Seas | WSJ Video Report
18. The brutal price Russian troops pay for deserting or disobeying orders

Korean News:

1. North Korean Soldiers Provide More Advanced Support for Russia’s War on Ukraine
2. Cheong Wa Dae hopes for N. Korea’s response after U.N. decides to exempt sanctions on humanitarian aid
3. U.S. call for S. Korea’s ‘primary’ defense role fuels expectations for OPCON transfer
4.  N. Korea includes area near inter-Korean border in regional development plan
5. U.N. rapporteur says Ukraine obliged to not send N.K. soldiers to risk of torture
6. Victims of Coupang data leak file class-action lawsuit in U.S. court, seeking punitive damages
7. Coupang’s interim CEO undergoes 14-hr questioning over perjury allegations
8. Q4 2025 U.S.-Korea Trade, Investment, and Diplomacy Ledger
9. North Korea Launches Luxury Sightseeing Boat on Taedong River
10. North Korea Takes Its Place at “Eurasian Charter” Table
11. Rubio warns of U.S. unease over Korea trade delays; Cho denies intent
12. Tariff talks turbulence raises concerns over Korea-U. S. ties

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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