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2/17/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.17.2026 at 06:49pm
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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Making the War Colleges Great Again
2. George Washington by George W. Bush
3. Beyond COIN: Governance Warfare and the Changing Character of Irregular Conflict
4. China is the real threat, Taiwan says in rebuff to Munich speech
5. Japan protests China comments on reviving ‘militarism’
6. Iran Pitches New Ideas in Nuclear Talks—but Not the One That Matters to Trump
7. Popular anger burns in Iran after crackdown, as Trump turns up pressure
8. AI Defense Startup Breaker Raises $6 Million in Seed Funding
9. Xi’s new year message to military reveals PLA Cyberspace Force post in South China Sea
10. The Newest Old Tech in Warfare: Balloons
11. The Silence at the Pentagon
12. Report exposes 2,300 CCP-linked groups infiltrating western democracies
13. Chemical Weapons by Violent Non-State Actors in Combat
14. AI-Intelligentized Naval Mines and U.S. Subsea Access in the Paracel Islands
15. Recalibrating U.S. Intelligence Strategy for an Uncertain Global Order
16. Panama’s Hidden Chokepoint: Tocumen and the Convergence of Mobility Power
17. The Modern King of Battle: Creating the Army’s Integrated Fires Complex
18. The Back Brief: ‘Bodyguard of Lies’ — A tragic tale of hubris and missed opportunities
19. Marking Losar, the Tibetan New Year
20. So, We Have a Maritime Action Plan

Korean News:

1. Feb. 16: Two systems coincidentally collide — north Korea and America
2. The signal that crosses borders: Voice of America and Radio Free Asia
3. Highways congested nationwide on Lunar New Year
4. From lobster to Norse god: How Korean weapons get new names abroad
5. So, We Have a Maritime Action Plan
6. Lee vows efforts to build fair society in Lunar New Year message
7. France Considers Purchasing South Korean K239 Chunmoo Multiple Launch Rocket Systems
8. Why North Korea’s Kim is lauding Ukraine war sacrifices as key party congress looms
9. North Korea: Even Worse Than You Thought. (feat. Greg Scarlatoiu) (Podcast)
10. The Defector Podcast: Red Line | Former CIA Analyst: “North Korea’s Economy is Screaming.”
11. How the Party Congress became North Korea’s biggest political event
12. The 2026 Window: Can the “Ember” of US-North Korea Diplomacy Still Catch Fire?

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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