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1/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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01.28.2026 at 01:25pm
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National Security News:

1. How Computer Warfare Is Becoming Part of the Pentagon’s Arsenal
2. A Winter Lull in the Fighting? Not in the Age of Drone Warfare.
3. Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million, Study Finds
4.Key Gulf Allies Say They Won’t Aid U.S. in an Iran Strike, Limiting Trump’s Options
5. Never Fight Alone By William H. McRaven
6. Conventional Forces Will Never Embrace Irregular Warfare
7. Trump hails Rubio as diplomatic mentor as secretary of state’s power grows
8. Cognitive Warfare Without a Map: Why Current Targeting Logic Fails in a Fast-Moving Information Ecosystem
9. Post-Khamenei Iran: Who’s Who Among Potential Alternatives
10. Clausewitz and the American Center of Gravity: A Look at the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy Together
11. COLUMN: Want Influence? Control the Story
12. Xi’s military purge probably cuts imminent Taiwan war risk. Probably
13. Holding out: Taiwan’s priority preparations in case of Chinese blockade
14. Finding the Signal within the Noise: What Information Warriors Need to Know About Human Pattern Recognition.
15. Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility
16. Key Takeaways from the New National Defense Strategy
17. China’s Economic Statecraft Is Working
18. Making Industrial Strategy Great Again

Korean News:

1. Korean Strategic Culture of the last Eight Korean Nation States: Comparing the Past to Today’s North and South Variants
2. Korean Peninsula Update, January 27, 2026
3. Exclusive | U.S. Warns Korea Against Targeting American Tech Firms Amid Trade Escalation
4. North Korea claims successful test of upgraded large-caliber rocket system
5. Kim Jong Un’s inspections grow harsher ahead of party congress
6. Accelerated OPCON Transfer Must Avoid a Security Vacuum
7. US ouster of Maduro nightmare scenario for Kim Jong Un, says North Korean ex-diplomat
8. UNC says pending bills to ease DMZ access ‘completely at odds’ with armistice
9. Minister says probe into drone incursion focuses on acts by ‘remnants’ of Yoon gov’t
10. S. Korea will explain efforts to pass special investment bill to U.S.: presidential aide

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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