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3/12/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.12.2026 at 10:01pm
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National Security News:

1. Admiral Cooper, the Warrior Diplomat Running Trump’s Fight in Iran
2. Hegseth Calls for Assessment, Alignment of DOW Legal Functions, Operations
3. These are Ukraine’s $1,000 interceptor drones the Pentagon wants to buy
4. We’re in a New Kind of War
5. Behind the Curtain: The big lie warping America
6. Pentagon seeks system to ensure AI models work as planned
7. The Autonomous Battlefield:  And Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for It
8. Ukraine Wants to Be a School for Drone Operators
9. Could special forces truly obliterate Iran’s nuclear programme?
10. Hundreds of Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Now Gone: The U.S. Navy’s Ohio-Class SSGN Submarine Crisis Is Coming
11. Mysterious Lull in Chinese Military Flights Leaves Taiwan Guessing
12. Xi Enforces His Demand for Ethnic Unity Across China
13. War Is Raging. Tankers Are Burning. Yet the Stock Market Isn’t Panicking—for Now.
14. Why Coercion Failed in Iran
15. Munich 2026: The Turning that Didn’t Start this Year
16. The Singular Threat of Lone Actors in the European Union
17. Testing Denial: The Philippine Alliance in America’s First Island Chain Strategy
18. As US missiles leave South Korea, the Philippines asks: are we next?
19. The Menace of Misunderstanding: Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ukraine’s Drone-Saturated Battlefields

Korean News:

1. Opinion: ‘Taming’ the military in the name of civilian control
2. As US missiles leave South Korea, the Philippines asks: are we next?
3. JCS chairman, USFK commander inspect front-line troops during annual joint drills
4. S. Korean PM meets Vance in Washington after parliament passes U.S. investment bill
5. U.S. sanctions 6 individuals, 2 entities for roles in N. Korean IT worker ‘fraud’: Treasury Dept.
6. Prospects for Trump-Kim meeting around China trip appear low
7. Iran war warning: Will Russia’s eyes guide North Korean drones?
8. Women of March 1st independence movement and decoloniality
9. S. Korea, U.S. agree on need to implement summit agreements in ‘balanced’ manner: Seoul official
10. Kim Jong Un inspects new pistols in first post-congress weapons factory visit
11. North Korean crops held strong through winter before lean period: report
12. Exclusive: North Korea Produces 80 Nuclear-Capable Super-Large Rocket Launchers

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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