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3/30/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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03.30.2026 at 04:13pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1.  Defining Cognitive Warfare for the NDAA: MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR
2. The decapitation dilemma
3. Why U.S. Special Operations Forces Will Focus More On The Cyber Domain
4. A Toothless Iran? Missile and Drone Strikes Show It Can Still Inflict Pain.
5. Review: Raising the Bar – The School of Advanced Military Studies and the Introduction of Operational Art in U.S. Army Doctrine
6. Pro-Ukrainian partisans disable electronic warfare equipment in Russia’s Novgorod Oblast, group claims
7. Anduril Wants to Own the Future of War Tech. Mishaps, Delays, and Challenges Abound
8. Exclusive | Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran’s Uranium
9. In an Asymmetrical War, Iran Seeks an Edge With Its Information War
10. Official highlights new Chinese warfare undermining Taiwan’s democracy
11. SOF Weekly Brief – Mar 30, 2026
12. Iran in the Box: The Coercive Architecture of the 2026 Iran War and Its Strategic Implications
13. SF Confidential | Three Ways SOF Sees the Fight
14. Corporate AI as the Military’s Weakest Link
15. Opinion | In Israel, wartime reality doesn’t match what you see on the internet
16. Iran’s war against the US and Israel is being fueled by North Korean weapons, expert warns
17. Zelensky Tours Bombarded Mideast in Search of New Rich Allies
18. The Web of Patronage Keeping Iran’s Regime in Control
19. The Sisyphean Struggle for Influence Campaigning in Competition
20. What the Iran War Means for China

Korean News:

1. Iran’s war against the US and Israel is being fueled by North Korean weapons, expert warns
2. North Korean laborers describe brutal forced labor in Russia: ‘Working like a cow, earning nothing’
3. China steps up North Korea connections as regular Beijing-Pyongyang flights resume
4. Unification minister says joining U.N. resolution on N.K. human rights made through interagency coordination
5. Belarusian leader seeks to mediate between US and North Korea: Minsk
6. Russia’s top news agency reaches deal with North Korea to combat ‘fake news’
7. South Korea to Pilot Unmanned GPs on Eastern Front from 2029
8. Unified Command Systems Key to Enhancing Integrated Defense Efficiency
9. North Korea Showcases Female Special Forces Combat Skills
10. North Korea’s Special Forces ‘Magic Show’ Stuns Kim Jong-un
11. Gov’t urges public not to worry about supply of standard garbage bags amid Middle East crisis
12. Price of chaos: Why a swift resolution in the Middle East is in S. Korea’s best interest
13. A strategy without a strategy: Where is Seoul’s North Korea policy heading?
14. The bloody brilliance of Park Chan-wook’s ‘JSA’

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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