What the Iran War Reveals
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What the Iran War Reveals
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For years, the Pentagon promised drone dominance would change everything.
Then Iran shot down an American fighter jet.
Colin Demarest has been covering the future of defense at Axios long enough to know the gap between Pentagon strategy and battlefield reality. As the author of the Future of Defense newsletter, he’s been inside the Iran conflict coverage since the first strike — tracking new weapons systems in their first real-world test, watching war costs climb past $16 billion and rising.
We get into whether drone dominance is actually delivering, what the U.S. dismissal of Ukraine’s anti-drone technology offer tells us about how Washington processes advice from allies who’ve been in the fight, and whether the defense industrial base can sustain a long war.
The future of defense isn’t theoretical anymore.
Part Three of the April Axios takeover of The Friday Reporter.
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