A senior Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center official is seeing the quantity and sophistication of digital attacks increase, a trend that he suggests may be attributable to the emergence of new AI capabilities that can aid hackers.
Terry Kalka, director of the DOD-Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment (DCISE), noted that malicious cyber actors can now use AI to do a lot of their work.
“I don’t think we’ve gotten to a point where we get a report and we go ‘ah, that was an AI attack there.

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The UK has spoken publicly about a new air defence system, dubbed Rapid Sentry, designed to shoot down drone threats.

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A U.S. F-35 jet made an emergency landing in the Middle East after being hit by suspected Iranian fire during a mission over Iran.
The jet landed safely and the pilot is stable, but the incident is under investigation.
This would mark the first time Iran has successfully hit a U.S. aircraft—specifically a 5th-generation stealth jet—since the war began.
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, confirmed the emergency landing.

Troops seeking religious waivers for beards will now have to prove to senior military service officials that they have sincerely held beliefs that require they grow their facial hair. The new military-wide policy imposes new requirements for both submitting and approving requests for such waivers, and adds new steps for a troop’s direct commanders and supervisors to weigh in on the requests.
The new memo also adds a requirement of a sworn statement of religious faith, with a warning that a false claim could result in “disciplinary action” under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Designed in 2002, the Heckler & Koch XM8 was a lightweight assault rifle that aimed to replace the original M4 carbine in U.S. Army service. Based on Germany’s G36 rifle, the XM8’s futuristic appearance and extensive use of polymer made it popular in video games of the time. But the Army canceled the program and opted to stick with an improved M4A1 carbine.
Now, the XM8 is back on the military’s books, as the carbine version of the M7, courtesy of SIG Sauer.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Droneshield has entered into a partnership with Robin Radar Systems, incorporating the latter’s radar technology into its sensor ecosystem to broaden radar-based detection options for users.

L Todd Wood talks with former SEAL and Naval Academy graduate CMDR Dan O’Shea (USN, Ret) about a possible seizure of Iranian Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
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Military families shipping their household goods and cars to new assignments are seeing delays brought on by the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, Pentagon officials say.
A March 10 memo issued by the Defense Department’s Personal Property Activity, or PPA, warned that “the operation in the Middle East is causing severe, widespread, and rapidly evolving disruptions to air and sea shipments. Airport closures, suspensions of port operations, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and significant security risks are preventing vessel and airline ability to safely transit the area.

In 2024, Thanassis Cambanis wrote, “Leave Syria, Keep Fighting the Islamic State,” where he argued the United States should withdraw from Syria, but continue to invest in counter-terrorism measures to combat the Islamic State. Two years later, after an American withdrawal from Syria and a new Syrian government in power, we asked Thanassis to revisit his article.Image: Photo by Staff Sgt.

BAE Systems will test its Anti Threat System (BATS) for the first time in April, with live fire trials to follow in the summer.

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Today’s firearm market is awash with pistols designed and marketed for concealed carry.
However, when semi-automatic (known then as automatic), self-loading pistols first came on the scene at the turn of the 20th century, one carry pistol stood out and remained an issued Army sidearm until the 1970s. Of course, John Moses Browning designed it.
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Known for such legendary firearms as the 1911 handgun and the M2 .50-cal machine gun, Browning did not design the first commercial semi-automatic pistol.

The Army is about to roll out a smaller carbine as part of its new, multi-billion-dollar rifle system. A slightly shorter and lighter carbine version of the M7 rifle, the Army confirmed, is now close enough to fielding that it has been given its own name: the XM8.
Troops tapped for early testing of the new carbine should start to get their hands on the first XM8s as soon as October, an Army spokesperson told Task & Purpose. The XM8 shares internal firing components with the Army’s new M7 rifle, firing a 6.8 x 51mm round.

Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK have announced the possible establishment of a new mechanism for defence procurement by 2027.

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The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing.
Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft called the Gremlin Special took off from Sentani Airport near Wamena, New Guinea (in what is now Indonesia) on May 13, 1945. The group, including eight Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers, was to receive a bird’s-eye view of the Baliem Valley, which local pilots had nicknamed Shangri-La Valley after the kingdom in James Hilton’s novel, “Lost Kingdom.

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