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At first glance, it was easy to underestimate Robert Cade.
Once reportedly referred to as “too dumb for medical school,” the United States Navy veteran showed them otherwise. Bespectacled and balding later in life, Cade looked like the average man. He could have easily led an anonymous existence as he studied and practiced renal medicine at the University of Florida.
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He might have, too, if not for his role as team doctor for the Gators’ football team.

Following confirmation that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a successful strike against a U.S. Armed Forces F-35 fifth generation fighter flying over central Iran, multiple sources have reported that the Majid short-range air defence system, also known as the AD-08, was responsible. The shootdown has significant implications for the immediate air campaign, and will potentially reduce U.S. and Israeli efforts to use stealth aircraft to launch penetration strikes deep inside Iran.

New images have revealed that the Korean People’s Army tank brigade at the Pyongyang Training Base No. 60 serving under the elite Capital City Defence Corps has been re-equipped with next generation main battle tanks, which appear to be enhanced variants of the Chonma 2 design. The unit received an inspection from multiple figures in the country’s political and military leadership on March 19, with Chairman of the Korean Workers’ Party King Jong Un personally overseeing a coordinated offensive tactical drill of infantrymen and tankmen’s sub-units.

The UK has lost significant diplomatic standing for its slow reactions to the unfolding Iran-Middle East crisis.

This episode is about far more than countering drones. It is about how America prepares for and fights its wars. With three leaders from three companies at the forefront of counter-drone solutions (AeroVironment, Epirus, and Hidden Level), the conversation explores how America and its enemies are adapting, how the U.S. military is and isn’t keeping pace, the problems with how America buys things, and more. This episode also features a rant from Ryan about companies that exaggerate the value they are providing to Ukraine.

The scale of Secretary General Xi Jinping’s military purges is shocking. More than 100 senior leaders have been removed since 2022. And that number keeps growing, with nine military officers purged just last week and three more retired generals removed from a senior advisory body in early March. But it is the January removal of China’s top general, Zhang Youxia, that represents the most visible episode of these purges, and the one with the greatest implications for the future of the People’s Liberation Army.

Less than a month after the repeal of Caesar Act sanctions, Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al Sharaa launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, triggering Arab tribal defections and a rapid loss of territory. The fallout has jeopardized Islamic State containment in northeast Syria by disrupting intelligence networks built by the Syrian Democratic Forces, widening security gaps, and degrading detention-and-camp control.

Russian state media outlets have publish new footage of Korean People’s Army units in Russia supporting the ongoing war effort against Ukraine and its supporters in the Western world. The personnel appear to be from regular infantry units, rather than engineering, special forces, ballistic missile, or artillery units which have all reported been deployed in Russia. The North Korean personnel are seen wearing Russian uniforms and equipment.

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has published footage confirming the successful targeting of a U.S. F-35 fifth generation fighter using a ground based air defence system, marking the first surface-to-air kill against an aircraft of its generation to be confirmed. It remains uncertain whether the F-35 was shot down, or only seriously damaged, with U.S. sources claiming that it succeeded in making an emergency landing. The footage was published just hours after the U.S.

Head of the Taipei-based Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology President Lee Shih-chiang has informed the Republic of China legislature that a dedicated countermeasure plan is currently under development to counter the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) long-range rocket artillery systems. Live-fire testing is expected to commence in 2027.