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3/18/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.18.2026 at 09:46pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Narrative as a Weapon: Russian, Iranian, and Chinese Approaches to Cognitive Warfare
2. The Value of EURO-SOF
3. FPV Drones and the Exposure of U.S. Airbases
4. Exclusive | Israel Is Hunting Down Iranian Regime Members in Their Hideouts, One by One
5. The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why (published in Al Jazeera)
6. How China Is Quietly Helping an Isolated Iran Survive
7. What a Frozen, Abandoned Military Base Reveals About Trump’s Greenland Ambitions
8. Opinion | America Bombs Iran, and Zelensky Suddenly Holds Aces
9. Do Alliances Still Matter in a Multipolar World?
10. U.S. Marine Corps being destroyed from within
11. Asia’s silence on Trump’s Hormuz call isn’t inaction
12. Judge Orders Voice of America to Restart All News Operations
13. How to Raise the Odds of Regime Change in Iran
14. The Lasting Wounds of the War in Ukraine
15. Who Owns the Drones? Why Modernization of Army Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Should Be a Maneuver Responsibility
16. Double-Edged Swords: How Military Purges Shape Authoritarian Appetite for War

Korean News:

1. Original Research: Korean language differences between the North and the South by Robert M. Collins, HRNK
2. The structural truth revealed by North Korea’s delayed election
3. US, South Korean troops sharpen battlefield coordination in Mojave Desert exercise
4. Taiwan changes ‘Korea’ to ‘S. Korea’ in immigration system in protest over Seoul’s labeling of it as China
5. Korean Peninsula Update, March 18, 2026
6. Asia’s silence on Trump’s Hormuz call isn’t inaction
7. Judge Orders Voice of America to Restart All News Operations
8. N. Korea committed to expanding nuclear, missile programs; poses ‘significant’ threats to S. Korea, Japan: U.S. report
9. N. Korea embarks on new project to modernize Pyongyang
10. N. Korea, Russia mark 77th anniversary of bilateral treaty on economic, cultural cooperation

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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