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3/15/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

by David Maxwell

03.15.2026 at 09:57pm

National Security News:

1. SOF News: Epic Fury Update – Mar 15, 2026

2. From Kyiv to Taipei: Three Theatres, Much to Learn. The Big Five, 15 March edition by Mick Ryan

3. The Split-Screen War: Finding a way out of a war gone badly wrong by Sir Lawrence Freedman

4. For Xi, Iran War Reinforces View of U.S. as Dangerous Superpower

5. Iran Tests U.S. Military Might With a Guerrilla Assault on the Global Economy

6. He Was Chevron’s Man in Venezuela—and a CIA Informant

7. The Middle East Needs to Learn How Ukraine Stops Cheap Drones

8.If Seizing Iran’s Nuclear Material Is the Endgame, Here’s What It Would Take

9. US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B

10. Typhon: The U.S Army and U.S. Navy Have Missiles That Can Strike China or Aircraft Carriers from 1,200 Miles Away

11. The White House’s ‘memeification’ of war with Iran sparks scrutiny

12. US Army enlists ASU to help modernize military learning

13. Fox News correspondent backs Voice of America during awards reception

14. Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it “woke”

15. Shockwaves Across Asia: The Iran War’s Strategic Fallout

Korean News:

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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