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The war against Iran has spread to neighboring Iraq, where a top U.S. general says American Apache attack helicopters are battling Iranian proxies.
“In Iraq, AH-64s [Apache helicopters] have been striking against Iranian-aligned militia groups to make sure that we suppress any threat in Iraq against us, forces or U.S. interests,” Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters on Thursday.
Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, Caine did not elaborate on how many combat missions Apache helicopters have flown in Iraq since U.S.

An Illinois soldier was awarded a Purple Heart on her very last day in the Army, receiving the award more than a decade after suffering injuries from a car bomb in Afghanistan.
Sgt. 1st Class Christina Larson was a combat medic with the 911th Forward Surgical Team in 2015 at Kabul’s main airport, then known as Hamid Karzai International. A car bomb attack against the base that January leveled buildings and blew in the windows to Larson’s barracks room, where she was in bed when the explosion went off.

The Navy is using a new pathfinder capability that continuously gathers and manages large amounts of data that the sea service can use to build better artificial intelligence algorithms and autonomous systems.
AI company Applied Intuition announced Thursday that it has delivered the first Data Edge Collection Kit (DECK) to the Navy.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, hold a press briefing at the Pentagon March 19, 2026.

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Canada will increase its sovereign ammunition production capacity following the launch of the Canadian Defence Industry Resilience.

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.