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2/16/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.16.2026 at 04:26pm
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National Security News:

1. Cognitive Warfare Fails the Cognitive Test
2. Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials
3. Biodefense Blind Spot: Why Washington Confuses Pandemics with Bioweapons
4. The Sound of Munich: Autonomy, Anxiety, and the Twilight of Transatlantic Order
5. Three American Speeches at Munich, and Plenty of Confusion
6. Opinion | Rubio’s Tough Love for Europe
7. U.S. Military Airlifts Mini Nuclear Reactor in First-Ever Flight
8. Canada to Prioritize Domestic Firms in Defense-Spending Plan Amid U.S. Tension
9. Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
10. Anthropic Blasts Pentagon’s Use of Its AI Tool in Venezuela Raid—May Void $200M Contract
11. Promoting Stability on the Path to Superintelligence
12. U.S. and Europe, No Longer Kindred Souls, Enter a Marriage of Convenience
13. A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
14. China’s military reveals future air warfare plans
15. How China Fights Against a U.S. Army Brigade Combat Team
16. Driving PME Transformation for the Total Force: CGSS’s Modernization of the ADL Common Core
17. Beyond Swarming: Documenting Harassment, Assault, and ICAD by Chinese Maritime Militia
18. The Seven Sons of China are Stealing our Stuff

Korean News:

1. The Kim Ju-ae succession myth
2. A Defector Explains the Remote-Work Scam Helping North Korea Pay for Nukes
3. Does the UN Command have jurisdiction over the DMZ? There’s no such provision in the Armistice Agreement.
4. North Korea opens street for families of soldiers killed in Russia-Ukraine war
5. Army boasts coastal security readiness ahead of Lunar New Year
6. Lee Jae Myung and Nixon: Divergent Perspectives on Military Oversight
7. What Colby’s Northeast Asia Tour Tells Us About the Future of Japan-Korea-US Trilateral Deterrence
8. Why Kim Ju Ae’s Path to Power Is Structurally Blocked
9. Korea goes adrift in processing legislation of US investment
10. Omotenashi Barefoot Hospitality: A new paradigm for Korea-Japan relations
11. How eager should we be to reopen dialogue with North Korea?
12. [Lee Byung-jong] Korea’s Demilitarized Zone

About The Author

  • David 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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