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

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02.26.2026 at 10:35pm
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National Security News:

1. Going on the Offensive: Rethinking US SOF’s Mission Set for the Age of Strategic Competition
2. American Power Without Fiscal Alignment Is Not Sustainable Power
3. In a First, U.S. Deploys Combat Jets to Israel for Potential Wartime Mission in Iran
4. F-16 Pilot’s Narrow Escape in Missile Attack Shows Risks of a New Mideast War
5. Is China flexing its intelligence muscle by tracking US military moves near Iran?
6. Can China and Philippines replace ‘disputes with cooperation’ after years of tension?
7. US to keep China trade tariffs steady ahead of key Trump-Xi meeting: Greer
8. Greenland: Defense Agreements with Denmark | SOF News
9. Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic
10. Assessing Xi’s Unprecedented Purges of China’s Military: Key Developments and Potential Implications
11. ‘We don’t have infantry’: Ukraine’s war machine evolves into machine war
12. Ukraine Is Losing the War
13. America Needs an Alliance Audit
14. Voice of America is covering Iran’s protests, but not its best-known dissident
15. For Iran’s Regime, Better to Take a Beating than Capitulate

Korean News:

1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s Closing Address at Ninth WPK Congress
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s Speech at Military Parade Held in Commemoration of Ninth Congress of WPK
3. Kim leaves door open to U.S. ties as North Korea vows nuclear buildup
4. Lee reaffirms commitment to improve ties with N. Korea after Pyongyang snubs dialogue offer
5. (News Focus) N. Korea keeps door open for dialogue with U.S.; deepens hostility toward Seoul
6. S. Korea regrets N.K.’s hostile policy declaration toward Seoul, vows to pursue reconciliation
7. Kim Jong-un Labels South Korea ‘Complete Hostile State’
8. USFK Commander’s Statement Directed by U.S. Department of Defense
9. China’s rare earth leverage and South Korea’s strategic counterweight
10. Anti-satellite weapons, AI tech headline North Korea’s new military wish list

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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