Jason Ma
In an interview with World at Stake earlier this week, he called Ukraine the “arsenal of democracy,” a term first used to describe the U.S. during World War II as it sustained allies with weapons and supplies. “Ukraine in the future, I think, will be the most important military industrial complex in the free world,” Petraeus said. “It is producing cutting-edge unmanned systems, not just in the air, but on the ground and at sea.”
Ukraine’s integration of hardware and software is also extraordinary, he noted, adding the pace of innovation is constant. Software updates come in less than a week, and hardware changes come every few weeks. In fact, Ukraine has recently developed new, more advanced drones with longer ranges that have evaded air defenses, allowing them to attack vital oil facilities deep inside Russian territory. That has devastated Russia’s ability to export oil, preventing the Kremlin from capitalizing on the spike in crude prices since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran.
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