Because all our industrybis owned by private equity seeking maximum rent and profits, appointing pollies to their boards to keep the grift going. In the absence of high-intesity war the flaws of the status quo, namely being unable to mount a defence with high-cost low supply items was masked

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6/6 Western allies must wake up to this reality. We need to create dedicated unmanned branches, scale up drone use dramatically, and work directly alongside Ukrainian forces to build modern militaries capable of winning tomorrow's attritional fights

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5/6 Upcoming breakthroughs in AI guidance, satellite links, and mesh networking will act like the sudden rise of the internet in the late 1990s. Forces that already use drones everywhere will master these upgrades instantly, leaving slow adopters hopelessly outmatched

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4/6 Ukraine and Russia also established separate unmanned branches to focus on R&D, testing, training, and strategic operations without bureaucratic friction. As a result, they possess far better drone know-how, tactics, and technology. Most importantly, they have scale and speed

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3/6 Right now, Western militaries are making the classic mistake of the slow adopter. While the West takes measured, low-resource steps, Ukraine and Russia treat drones as fundamental military infrastructure. They embed operators everywhere and build drone capabilities in existing units

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