US withdrawal from Iraq hands Iran a land bridge to threaten Kuwait, Jordan, and Kurdistan with drones and proxy forces.
Browsing: Drones
China is buying its way into the Middle East with cheap networks, cameras, and capital, while Washington keeps the guns and Gulf states play both sides.
Cheap drones and open software now decide wars, forcing Washington and allies to rebuild defense production for mass and speed.
Cheap Drone Warfare lets Iran outlast US missile stocks by inverting the cost equation and exposing the organizational limits of exquisite systems.
Attrition Warfare grinds wars into endurance contests as three gaps—power, technology, and politics—defy decisive outcomes and demand new thinking.
Iran’s missile forces survived two wars underground, but Tehran’s reliance on them may become a single point of failure.
Houthi forces seized Bab al-Mandab after Yemen’s government lines collapsed in hours, exposing command failures and unclear Saudi calculations.
The Houthis control Yemen’s Red Sea coast and Bab al-Mandab approaches, exposing how cheap weapons let militias disrupt global trade.
Mass-Effect Terrorism has not repeated at 9/11 scale, but drones and AI make a devastating comeback increasingly plausible.
Iran’s drones regenerate through dispersed networks and Chinese components, outpacing the slower, bottleneck-constrained recovery of its missile forces.