Robert Peters
The United States faces the potential prospect of war with a great power in the coming years, with the most likely prospect being the People’s Republic of China. China is increasingly confident in its own military capabilities, regularly harassing its neighbors and engaging in massive, joint military operations in and around Taiwanese waters and airspace that look for all the world like a full-scale dress rehearsal for invasion.1 Indeed, former Indo–Pacific Commander Admiral Phil Davidson said that he believes the Chinese military has decided it must be ready for an invasion of Taiwan by 2027, even if opposed by a U.S.-led coalition.2
At the same time, the world is witnessing the emergence of new military technologies, and old technologies applied in innovative fashion. In Ukraine, small, tactical drones (different from the large Predator and Reaper family of drones employed by the United States in the War on Terror) have become ubiquitous on the battlefield.3
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