Hegseth and the [previous generation of warfare.

The US and Nato aren't even remotely ready for the new warfare types.
You can see that in the excursion in Iran.
You can listen to Mr. Ho Ha Hegseth. The day of what is considered regular infantry is coming to a close.
Humans aren't safe on the field of battle. You can't mass troops and equipment for attacks. Supply lines are all in danger.

Our ships won't be able to operate within many hundreds of miles from shore.

We don't have the capacity to build enough drones, attack or defensive. Huge contracts to Jr. won't help.

From an Email letter I get called Noahpinion'

You can read lots of stories about how drones represent a revolution in military affairs; the recent Carnegie Endowment piece is a good one, as is the slightly older one by the Army University Press. But to really viscerally understand how deeply things have changed, you have to watch videos from the war. Here is a montage of drone strikes in Ukraine, including a terrifying final sequence where a drone flies into a Russian barracks and destroys it. It’s difficult stuff to watch, but if you want to understand the changes that have come to modern warfare, you have to see it.

The age of the human infantryman is rapidly drawing to a close. Simply surviving an FPV drone attack has become an almost impossible task for soldiers on the battlefield. The drone cordon has not yet become so airtight that territory can be held without humans, but these humans’ job is to hide out in dugouts for months at a time alone or in tiny groups, terrified of emerging above ground lest they be instantly droned. And ground robots are developing very quickly, to the point where assaults can sometimes be conducted without humans on the front line at all.

Drones are also slowly replacing bombers and missiles as a modern military’s primary tool for conducting long-range strikes. Russia has been pounding Ukrainian cities with Iranian-made “Shahed” drones for years, but Ukraine is now fighting back. Ukrainian drones regularly destroy Russia’s oil infrastructure and military supply lines. And Moscow was just hit by over 1000 Ukrainian drones, causing widespread damage and chaos:


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Carnegy
https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/04/ukraine-russia-war-changing-warfare-practice-military-strategy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Army press
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/July-August-2025/Unmanned-Aircraft-Revolution/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

video of drone strikes. NSF and not pretty at all

Link to tweet