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1/26/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.26.2026 at 04:05pm
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National Security News:

1. Exclusive | China’s Top General Accused of Giving Nuclear Secrets to U.S.
2. Niall Ferguson: How Trump Won Davos
3. Niall Ferguson: The Arrogance of Trump’s Foreign-Policy Critics
4. Special Operations News – Jan 26, 2026
5. How the old and new US defense strategies differ on traditional priorities
6. Here in One Kyiv Apartment Building, They Are Freezing—but Not Giving Up
7. Iran Is Selling More Oil but Making Less Money
8. Top Ukrainian drone commander says elite pilots hitting Russian troops at extreme close range
9. US to cut NATO command roles as alliance tensions intensify
10. Why the US Army must focus on winning the first battle of the next war
11. EMP Weapons Expose PRC Military Vulnerability
12. Romania Aims To Be the Leading Power of Southeastern Europe. But Who Will Pay for It?
13. A War Without Headlines: Mozambique’s Insurgency and the Global Security Blind Spot
14. Cognitive Dominance Without Kinetic Conflict: The Evolution of AI-Driven Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) and Cognitive Warfare as Instruments of Geopolitical Hegemony, Societal Fragmentation and Strategic Subversion (2026–2031)
15. NATO Defense Spending Tracker
16. The Personalist Global Order – When Individual Whims Drive Great-Power Policy
17. When Automation Accelerates War, Identity Determines Victory

Korean News:

1.  What It means to become a citizen (UK vs. north Korea)
2. A north Korean ‘Common Sense’ – Six rules for communicating ideas to the north.
3. What 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy means for Korea
4. US defense policy chief calls for greater allied responsibility
5. New US defense strategy warns of North Korean threats, omits denuclearization
6. Pentagon’s Colby visits ‘model ally’ South Korea amid shifting U.S. defense strategy
7. Unification minister says review under way for special envoy to facilitate U.S.-N. Korea talks
8. North Korean workers dread labor brigade assignments as countryside construction drive intensifies
9. Is Washington accepting a nuclear North Korea?
10. The 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy: Implications for the Korean Peninsula | Changing Currents

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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