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Shuaiba Drone Attack: What It Shares With the Khobar Towers Bombing, 30 Years Apart D-Day: How the Allies Solved the Biggest Problems of Amphibious Warfare India's Rafale Expansion: What 114 New Fighters Could Mean for the Indian Air Force The Mecca Pact Wasn't Really About Iran: Here's Who's Actually Losing Sleep Over It The Peril of Hubris: How Overconfidence Leads to Military Defeat in the US-Iran Conflict Drone Swarms Explained: How Massed UAVs Could Transform Future Warfare War Lessons from WW2: What the Second World War Still Teaches Military Planners Drone Warfare in Ukraine: How Cheap Weapons Are Changing Modern Battlefields Shuaiba Drone Attack: What It Shares With the Khobar Towers Bombing, 30 Years Apart D-Day: How the Allies Solved the Biggest Problems of Amphibious Warfare India's Rafale Expansion: What 114 New Fighters Could Mean for the Indian Air Force The Mecca Pact Wasn't Really About Iran: Here's Who's Actually Losing Sleep Over It The Peril of Hubris: How Overconfidence Leads to Military Defeat in the US-Iran Conflict Drone Swarms Explained: How Massed UAVs Could Transform Future Warfare War Lessons from WW2: What the Second World War Still Teaches Military Planners Drone Warfare in Ukraine: How Cheap Weapons Are Changing Modern Battlefields

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Shuaiba Drone Attack: What It Shares With the Khobar Towers Bombing, 30 Years Apart

Air Defense 9 min read

Shuaiba Drone Attack: What It Shares With the Khobar Towers Bombing, 30 Years Apart

The Shuaiba drone attack killed six U.S. soldiers despite billions in air defense. Thirty years earlier, Khobar Towers taught the same lesson. Here's how the two cases line up.

WA

War Lessons Editorial Team

Sep 6, 2026

Drone Warfare and the End of Traditional Air Superiority

Air Defense 13 min read

Drone Warfare and the End of Traditional Air Superiority

The proliferation of cheap, effective unmanned systems has shattered the assumption that air superiority belongs exclusively to states. What Ukraine and Yemen tell us about the future of the air domain.

ST

Strategic Affairs Desk

May 31, 2026