Author: Anders Puck Nielsen

NATO has failed to understand the drone revolution and needs to act quickly to avoid disaster in a war with Russia. That is the message in a recent article by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief. In this video, I discuss Zaluzhnyi’s arguments and point out where the Western militaries have gone wrong. The biggest problem is that they see drones as enablers of maneuver warfare, but they haven’t noticed that maneuver warfare is now a paradigm of the past. Drones have shifted the balance between defensive and offensive operations to an extent that modern warfare now means static, attritional fighting…