3/17/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
03.17.2026 at 10:03pm
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National Security News:
1. Fact-Checking the Commander-in-Chief on NATO in Afghanistan: The Choice Between History and Opportunity
2. The Perfect Swarm: Taiwan’s T-Dome in the Era of Drone Warfare
3. The Reckoning Coming for America’s Middle East Strategy
4. Operation Epic Sound and Fury
5. U.S. Allies Rebuff Trump’s Demand for Help Opening Strait of Hormuz
6. War in the Gulf Is Now Churning the U.S.-China Relationship
7. You Can’t Stockpile AI: Military Advantage in the Age of Algorithmic Diffusion
8. Europe Cannot Be a Military Power
9. How America’s War on Iran Backfired
10. Why Better Forecasts Don’t Fix Strategic Blindness
11. The Iran-Israel-US War Is Reconfiguring US Force Posture in the Indo-Pacific
12. Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official Steps Down, Citing Concerns About Iran War
13. America Gave Up Some of Its Last Minesweepers. Then Iran Made Them Necessary Again.
14. The US has several options to counter Iranian mines. These are some key assets.
15. The Reaper just won’t quit: Try as they might, the military can’t ditch the MQ-9
16. Tesla’s Cybertruck may be wrong for some. Could it be right for the battlefield?
17. Toward a Theory of Victory for the War in Iran
18. Taiwan’s First PRC-born Legislator Stokes Controversy
19. The Mine Gap: America Forgot How to Sweep the Sea
20. The CIA Since the Turn of the Century
21. Vietnam Asks Japan, South Korea For Help Accessing Crude Oil Supplies
22. The Strategic Use of Drones in Pakistan–India Irregular Warfare The Strategic Use of Drones in Pakistan–India Irregular Warfare
23. How Does the Iran War Affect China’s Energy Security?
Korean News:
1. Why Washington should reciprocate Seoul’s strategic commitment
2. South Korea Is Learning the Hard Truth About US Promises
3. Pentagon official calls U.S. ‘flexibility’ to meet urgent needs a ‘strength’ amid THAAD redeployment concerns
4. Trump says U.S. no longer needs assistance from NATO allies, S. Korea or Japan to secure Strait of Hormuz
5. The Iran-Israel-US War Is Reconfiguring US Force Posture in the Indo-Pacific
6. Trump’s Hormuz Warship Request Puts South Korea-US Alliance to the Test
7. Vietnam Asks Japan, South Korea For Help Accessing Crude Oil Supplies
8. N. Korea to hold first session of new Supreme People’s Assembly on Sunday: KCNA
9. N. Korea shows off ‘human-like’ robots at polling station, schools
10. N. Korea’s Kim inspects memorial museum for troops sent to Russia in war with Ukraine
11. Defense chief says received no official U.S. request on sending warships to Middle East
12. Debate grows over domestic intelligence role in South Korea
13. Your company’s Slack chat is the new DMZ
14. He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative
