DAVID SHIMER served on the National Security Council from 2021 to 2025, including as Director for Eastern Europe and Ukraine and Director for Russian Affairs, and is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Ukraine’s military commander in charge of the country’s drone warfare program urged the US and NATO countries alike on Wednesday to learn from Kyiv’s use of the technology on the battlefield so in the future there are not “hard questions from your children [about] when [their] father will come back.

Horoshok is now in production and has been officially codified by the Ministry of Defense. With any luck, it will soon be standard issue for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, available alongside conventional ammunition,

The Russians have fired thousands of Iranian-designed, 11-foot-long Shahed drones into Ukraine, while the Ukrainians have built their own long-range drones that can attack targets over 700 miles away.

Unmanned vehicles dominate the battlefield in Ukraine—laying mines, delivering ammunition and medication, even evacuating casualties.

Lethality will not be hindered by self-imposed restrictions. Our major risk is risk-avoidance.” Those were the words of US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in signalling a revolutionary change in Pentagon doctrine that set about speeding up America’s drone program overhaul.

The war in Ukraine shows how networked, low-cost drones and commercial tech are reshaping warfare—and why these lessons are critical for the future of space defense.

Drone warfare between Russia and Ukraine grows more varied and deadly. That means the infantry must adapt. Inside a storied Ukrainian brigade.

Offensive drones have had a brief window of domination. But it was only a matter of time before effective counter-drone capabilities emerged.