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3/9/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.09.2026 at 09:54pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. U.S. and Israeli Military Campaign Tests Limits of Air Power
2. Iran Signals a Fight to the End With Appointment of Khamenei’s Son
3. Commentary on Iran from GEN (RET) Scott Miller
4. ‘Simple plans, violently executed’: One Army unit’s old-school counter to high-tech chaos
5. Trump’s new cyber strategy calls for tougher responses to threats
6. Japan, France, Canada work on alternatives to US-led trade bloc for rare earth supplies
7. Pentagon task force to conduct laser test against drones
8. Pentagon acknowledges tough quest to counter Iranian drones
9. Iran can still fire drones and missiles — experts weigh the implications on the war
10. Iran After Khamenei’s Death
11. The Neuro-Tactical Debrief: Treating Cognitive Maintenance as a Logistics Function
12. When Is a War Not a War? When Congress Is Involved
13. China’s Expanding Global Intelligence Footprint In The Digital Age
14. Book Review | Modern Hybrid Warfare: Russia Versus the West
15. AI and the New Blueprint of Terrorism
16. As War With Iran Rages, the Axis of Resistance is in Survival Mode
17. Networked for War: Lessons from Ukraine’s Ground Robots
18. The US Strikes on Iran Are a Reminder to China: Power Is Power
19. The Postliberal Superpower: What Abandoning Democratic Allies Will Cost America

Korean News:

1. Nuclear fear, empty bravado: the truth about Kim Jong Un
2. North Korean Refugees: Long Road to Freedom
3. U.S., South Korea launch Freedom Shield drills amid widening Iran conflict
4. South Korea’s Lee approval rating rises to 65%
5. Scholars discuss Korea-China cooperation for peninsula peace
6. U.S. Army sends heavy-armed Stryker vehicles to South Korea
7. NZ Army deploys second infantry rotation to the Republic of Korea to train alongside partners
8. Why The World Is Buying South Korean Weapons
9. N. Korea’s Kim attends concert marking Int’l Women’s Day with wife, daughter
10. Ex-President Moon says Trump’s China visit could offer momentum for Korean Peninsula peace
11. U.S. investment bill expected to pass Nat’l Assembly this week
12.  Gov’t to take steps to implement fuel price cap this week as Mideast crisis intensifies
13. Kim Jong Un delivers his first speech commemorating International Women’s Day
14. China ‘intercepted’ helicopter tracking North Korean smuggling, Australia says
15. North Korea abruptly cancels sold-out international marathon

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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