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.
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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.
The Army’s top general in charge of munitions said Tuesday the service was looking to boost armament stocks “across the board,” but singled out some specialized missile systems, one of which has struggled in development, that he expects to make production gains soon.
Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano, the Army’s program acquisition executive for fires, said the service was “within a few weeks” of fully equipping the first battery of a hypersonic weapon system known as Dark Eagle, which was delayed for years and didn’t meet its original fielding timeline of 2023.
Sailors on the USS Gerald R. Ford have already been away from home for more than eight months and are now headed for yet another unanticipated stop, this time on the Greek island of Crete, following a fire on the ship, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Ford left Norfolk, Virginia, last June, and its crew has seen combat in two hemispheres during a deployment that could soon be among the longest in the Navy since the Vietnam War.
As part of a broader effort across the Pentagon to improve procurement, the Space Force has finalized the nine specific mission areas that will guide its new organizations known as portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs), according to the service.
The Space Force announced Tuesday that it has officially established four more PAEs — a new organizational framework spearheaded by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s large-scale acquisition overhaul.
The opening pitch of the UK Ministry of Defence’s most senior civil servant to the parliamentary defence committee failed to go to plan.
The White House registered two new government domains this week: alien.gov and aliens.gov, according to publicly available federal records.
Their appearance comes about one month after President Donald Trump announced plans to direct the long-anticipated release of U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and extraterrestrial beings.
Those new domains were not connected to websites as of Wednesday morning.