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3/8/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.08.2026 at 08:58pm
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National Security News:

1. Lockheed vs. Anduril: Who Will Build the Army’s Next Great Command and Control System?
2. In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame
3. Trump weighs daring mission to snatch Iran’s nuclear stockpiles
4. America’s Military Is Focused on Iran. Its Biggest Challenge Is China.
5. Next Task for Xi Jinping: Rebuild the Military Command He Wiped Out
6. Judge rules Kari Lake unlawfully ran U.S. media agency, voiding layoffs
7. ‘The mother of all commando raids’: US forces may need to secure uranium in Iran, analysts say
8. State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war
9. A Guide to the Pentagon’s Dance With Anthropic and OpenAI
10. Xi Jinping’s zero-fail mission for China’s military: total loyalty, no corruption
11. ‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran
12. China warns ‘flames of war’ spreading and calls on US to help manage differences ahead of Xi-Trump meeting
13. Europe Didn’t Want War With Iran. But So Far, It Can’t Stay Out of It.
14. Ukraine’s counter-drone expertise has been hard won. War in the Middle East may reveal its silver lining
15. Ukraine’s interceptor drone makers look at exports to the Gulf as Iran war flares
16. Opinion | Trump Can Win Something Greater Than the Nobel Peace Prize

Korean News:

1. A question on International Women’s Day – The reality of women that North Korea does not talk about
2. Statement for U.K. Parliamentary Hearing on North Korean women
3. America’s Military Is Focused on Iran. Its Biggest Challenge Is China.
4.Microsoft warns North Korean threat groups are scaling up fake worker schemes with generative AI
5. Women’s rights advocates rally in Seoul on International Women’s Day
6. U.S. transport aircraft spotted departing Osan Air Base amid Patriot relocation speculation
7. Airlift operations at USFK base signal possible shift of assets to Middle East
8. Redeploying USFK assets abroad
9. Seoul seeks to build blockchain-based ‘peace trade system’ with North Korea
10. Lee Jae-myung Is a New Kind of President – and South Koreans Approve

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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