Drone warfare could save NATO
"Imagine how Russia would fare against 32 Ukraines." That line is doing a lot of work, and it's the most interesting part of this piece. It's a fair provocation: Ukraine, with a fraction of Russia's budget and manpower, has used drones to bleed a much larger army, sinking warships and burning tanks that cost millions. If NATO scaled that up across every member, the math gets uncomfortable for Moscow.
I think the core argument has real merit. Drones are cheap, expendable, and they've rewritten what an ambush looks like. A few thousand dollars of quadcopter can take out a tank that costs millions. That's an asymmetry any alliance would want to exploit, especially one nervous about defense budgets and shrinking industrial capacity.
But the comparison only stretches so far. Ukraine fights on home soil with total national commitment, Western intelligence feeding it targets, and a level of improvisation that peacetime militaries, bound by procurement rules and bureaucracy, simply don't have. NATO's 32 members would need to agree on doctrine, share sensitive technology, and actually fund this shift. That's a political hurdle as big as any technical one. I'd want the article to address whether the alliance can move fast enough, or whether it'll still be buying tanks while drones get cheaper and deadlier.