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The ongoing 2026 US-Israel-Iran conflict highlights a timeless military reality: the belief in a quick, decisive victory through overwhelming force often blinds strategists to the realities of prolonged asymmetric warfare and ultimately leads to military defeat.
For decades, air power has been defined by the fighter jet, an exquisite, multi-million-dollar machine piloted by a highly trained human. Today, a new paradigm is taking shape. Militaries are moving beyond individually piloted drones to develop drone swarms: massive networks of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that operate as a single, terrifyingly cohesive unit.
Introduction The character of modern combat is undergoing a radical transformation, driven by technological innovation and necessity. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe,…
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.
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