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2/25/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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02.25.2026 at 09:33pm
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National Security News:

1. Iran, Escalation, and the Strategy of Denial
2. C-UAS Operations: We Need a Single Pane of Glass
3. Cognitive Warfare and the Indo-Pacific
4. Elbridge Colby and the Reordering of the Indo-Pacific
5. Lawmakers From Both Parties Push Navy to Award Mega Submarine Contracts
6. U.K. Delays Controversial Deal Linked to U.S. Military Base After Trump
7. Resilience and Resistance: Interdisciplinary Lessons in Competition, Deterrence, and Irregular Warfare
8. Soldiers Experiment With First-Person-View Unmanned Aircraft Systems
9. A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT accidentally revealed a global intimidation operation
10. China uses a ‘whole-of-society approach’
11. The Risk and Reward of US Intervention in Iran
12. Violent Militias Stand Between the U.S. and Venezuela’s Vast Mineral Riches
13. Former Venezuelan Generals Seek to Assist Maduro’s U.S. Prosecution
14. Shattering the Software Stovepipes: How to Close the US Military’s Technology Integration Gap
15. Cognitive Warfare Is Cheap—and That’s the Problem
16. The Transatlantic Defense Business Politics Can’t Break
17. Arctic Hot Takes Need a Cold Reality Check

Korean News:

1. The Three Revolutions and the lessons from history
2. U.S., South Korea to start large-scale joint military drills March 9
3. N. Korean media glorify leader Kim as ‘greatest man in world’ after reelection as party chief
4. S. Korea keeps ‘all possibilities’ in mind on U.S.-N.K. dialogue during Trump’s China visit: Seoul envoy
5.  N. Korea discusses draft proposals of 5-yr policy goals at key congress
6. S. Korea, U.S. to stage annual military exercise next month, still in consultation over field training
7. US, South Korea to hold spring drills on countering North Korea from March 9
8. North Korea rolls out red carpet at military parade venue in final prep
9. North Korea scholar Andrei Lankov detained in Latvia before lecture
10.Trump makes no mention of North Korea in State of the Union speech
11. North Korea’s Party Congress continues meetings on next five-year plan
12. ­Korean Peninsula Update, February 25, 2026
13. Fault Lines Daily Summary – February 24, 2026 (Korea and Beyond)
14. N. Korea hails family that skipped 60th birthday feast as frugality model
15. Editorial: Unprecedented Public Discord in South Korea-US Military

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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