Access National Security News HERE.Access Korean News HERE.National Security News Content:1. Trump Fires Top Pentagon Officers in Sweeping Overhaul2. Dan Caine, Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick, Had Unusual Path to Top Ranks3. White House and Ukraine Close In on Deal for Mineral Rights4. Washington’s Embrace of Putin Aims to Drive Wedge Between Moscow and Beijing5. See How Xi and Putin Are Ramping Up Joint Military Drills6. DoD Probationary Workforce Statement7. Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge8. New ‘irregular triad’ gaining currency as operational concept to improve deterrence9. There’s a story in each shard of the shattered USAID10. Trump urges Musk to be ‘more aggressive’ in bid to shrink US government11. Russia Wants to Erase Ukraine’s Future—and Its Past12. Connecticut Asks Congress to ‘Rethink the Jones Act’13. Warfare at the Speed of Thought: Balancing AI and Critical Thinking for the Military Leaders of Tomorrow14. Donald Trump’s Russia Gamble: Could It Work?15. 5 Key Lessons from Three Years of the Ukraine War16. Confirm Elbridge Colby Right Now17. Why No One Is Winning in Ukraine18. China’s Self-Defeating Strategy19. Socom Laser-Focused on Winning, Readiness, Modernization20. In Purge, Trump Fires Brown, Slife, Franchetti, and More21. Lake says VOA won’t be ‘Trump TV’Korean News Content:1. N. Koreans’ high casualties in Ukraine blamed on inexperience2. Lake says VOA won’t be ‘Trump TV’3. S Korea’s new missile both bunker buster and nuclear hedge4. Ukraine official says sending of N.K. POWs to S. Korea ‘possible’5. See How Xi and Putin Are Ramping Up Joint Military Drills6. N. Korea threatens to use ‘strategic means’ in response to S. Korea-U.S. air drills7. Grenell says ‘Trump can show up with Kim Jong-un’8. Trump inks memo to facilitate allies’ investment, restrict China from investing in strategic sectors9. N. Korea seen using ChatGPT in AI education10. OpenAI says it banned accounts potentially linked to N. Korea over deceptive employment scheme11. Chey Tae-won visits U.S. and says S. Korea has invested 230 trillion won in U.S., emphasizing partnership12. Cyber crooks STEAL £1.19bn in biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft – as North Korean hackers ‘behind heist’13. Party approval ratings fluctuate after martial law14. Rallies held nationwide for, against Yoon’s impeachment ahead of final hearing15. Trump seen tapping into allies’ security concerns over geographic proximity to conflict zones16. N. Korea designated ‘high-risk jurisdiction’ for money laundering, terrorism financing for 15th year The post 2/22/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.