Mike Jernigan
In a recent memorandum on the United States military drone program, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote that he expects training “force-on-force drone wars” in 2026. Given its current capabilities, the United States in all probability would not be able to win a drone war with China: Its 20 models and hundreds of copies would be at a severe disadvantage against the People’s Republic of China’s millions. It is critical that the U.S. learn the lesson of the old proverb—“If the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, then the second-best time to plant a tree is today”—and improve its drone manufacturing base immediately.
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