Sinéad Baker
Learning from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, US Army drone trainers are teaching soldiers to be ready for a threat many US troops haven't faced in decades: a sky they don't control. The US has had control of the air in its recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing it to move and strike with relatively little fear of enemy aircraft. For most soldiers, what's overhead has usually been friendly.
But the war in Ukraine is showing the US and Western allies that this assumption may not hold in future conflicts. That shift has implications for tactics, training, and even mindset. Maj. Rachel Martin, the director of the Army's new Unmanned Advanced Lethality Course designed to catch the US up on small drone warfare, told Business Insider that "we are used to air supremacy as an Army."
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