The U.S. needs to master Ukraine’s cheap drone strategy |
The U.S. needs to master Ukraine’s cheap drone strategy
The U.S. can’t defend itself against swarms of Iran’s inexpensive drones. But Ukraine can teach the world a lot of new tricks.
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President Donald Trump got the U.S. into a global economic and geopolitical mess with his Iran war. It was all predictable, except for one unintended consequence: Iran’s response in the region has demonstrated that the Pentagon’s traditional weaponry is not ready to fight the war of the future.
Instead of the heavy systems used by the U.S. military since World War II—missiles and ships that........