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2/22/26National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.22.2026 at 10:30pm
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National Security News:

1. Clausewitz on the Very Bad Ideas to Reform the War Colleges
2. Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500 billion more on military
3. EDITORIAL: Four Years and More of Heroic Resistance: Ukraine Will Not Be Broken
4. Trump says he’s sending a hospital boat to Greenland
5. The U.S. Is Hunting the Shadow Fleet. This Is What It’s Up Against.
6. Beijing monitors Australian frigate HMAS Toowoomba’s passage through Taiwan Strait
7. Trump renews attack on Taiwan’s chip sector after US Supreme Court tariff ruling
8. Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows
9. What to Know About Trump’s New Tariff
10. Under Trump Pressure, Iran Finds Its Friends Are of Little Help
11. Anthropic’s Pentagon Problems
12. Iran’s Student Protesters Clash With Regime Loyalists
13. China’s Military AI Wish List
14.  Wagner’s African Reign Ends, Russian Intelligence Now Pulls The Strings
15. Extremists are using video games as recruitment tools. The UN fights back
16. Department of War Announces Groundbreaking of New Munitions Campus in Indiana > U.S. Department of War > Release

Korean News:

1. S. Korea, U.S. postpone announcement of date for annual military drills: sources
2. Allies differ over joint drills as Lee pushes to ease tension with NK: sources
3. N. Korea’s Kim cites ‘upsurge’ in national development on 3rd day of key party congress
4. North Korea heralds ‘remarkable successes’ at day two of Party Congress
5. Kim Jong Un gives mic to top diplomat, local official on day 3 of Party Congress
6. S. Korea calls in Japanese diplomat over annual event asserting Tokyo’s claims to Dokdo
7. Exclusive: South Korea Proposes Excluding Japan From Joint Drills
8.Exclusive: South Korea Rejects Trilateral Drills, Protests U.S. After Standoff
9. Seoul voices concerns to Russian Embassy over ‘victory will be ours’ banner
10. Cheong Wa Dae, gov’t, DP agree on swift passage of U.S. investment bill
11. Seoul is not America’s launchpad: Washington must not underestimate its ally
12. Editorial: U.S. Supreme Court Curbing Trump’s Overreach, Who Will Stop South Korean Assembly?

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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