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Hiding in plain sight tired the hell out of Ben Heck.
While deployed in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005, Heck sustained a traumatic brain injury as a result of a roadside bomb. The blast damaged the Army soldier physically, including injuries to his neck, left shoulder, and back. Dealing with a TBI was worse, leaving Heck almost unrecognizable, even to himself.
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It affected his vision and cognitive skills. Migraines plagued Heck, who had trouble sleeping and eating.

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At the start of February, we pointed out that “humanoid warfare nears” and suspected these war bots were headed for Ukraine for testing. 
That hunch was confirmed by early March, after a TIME Magazine article reported that Foundation Robotics, a U.S.-based startup developing humanoid robots for industrial and military applications, had recently sent two Phantom MK1 robots to Ukraine for testing.

The Eurofighter program is facing a worsening crisis as a result of its four-nation consortium structure, with the fragmented and politically constrained nature of Europe’s defence industrial base exacerbating already significant and longstanding issues with the program. Developed jointly by the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Spain, although the program was structured to distribute industrial benefits and ensure political buy-in, it has created a complex and often fragile production and sustainment ecosystem.

Iran’s new supreme leader reportedly wanted to attend his late father’s funeral ceremonies, but his own security establishment stepped in the way to prevent it.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son and successor of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not appeared in public since the February 28 U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed his father, wife, and son. And now, as Iran holds a week of funeral ceremonies, Mojtaba is still absent.

Established on January 24, 1964, MACV-SOG was a multi-service clandestine unit tasked with conducting covert operations before and during the Vietnam War. 
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group personnel consisted of U.S. Army Special Forces, U.S. Navy SEALs, U.S. Air Force air assets, U.S. Marine Corps force reconnaissance. It also included the CIA, which previously was in charge of these missions before SOG took over.

Ukraine Is Making Crimea A Liability for Russia: Ukraine’s campaign to isolate occupied Crimea gathered pace again this week when another string of long-range strikes hit Russian military infrastructure across the peninsula.

Overnight on June 30-July 1, Ukrainian forces struck a railway bridge near the village of Ichky, damaging a crossing that Russian forces were using to move troops and military equipment to the southern front.

Russia’s Advance Is Slowing: Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine is moving more slowly than at any point in more than a year, according to a new assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The news comes as Moscow continues to suffer enormous personnel losses on the battlefield and continued economic disruption caused by Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign.

New data published by the Washington-based ISW this week suggests that Russia’s territorial gains have collapsed in the first half of 2026, despite numerous offensives across the front in Donetsk.

The French Rafale fighter program on July 4, 2026, marked 40 years since the first flight of its first technology demonstrator in 1986, with the program having since evolved into by far the most successful in Europe in the post-Vietnam War era. The French Air Force began defining requirements for the fighter in 1983, just three years before its first flight, although major development delays meant that it would be 18 years before the aircraft could be belatedly brought into service in 2001.

Chinese state media has for the first time unveiled images of the terminal stage of its DF-26D intermediate range ballistic missile, after the missile was first unveiled in October 2025 to modernise the People’s Liberation Army’s land attack and anti-shipping capabilities against targets in the mid-Pacific and beyond.

A recent report to the U.S. Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed that preliminary design work on the DDG(X) next generation destroyer program was initiated in June 2025, and that the program is also conducting land-based test site construction activities and procurement of long-lead time materials. This follows confirmation in mid-June that the U.S.