Kriti Upadhyaya
US and Israeli forces conducted nearly 900 strikes against Iranian targets in the first 12 hours of Operation Epic Fury. Russia, meanwhile, has begun launching over 4,000 Iranian-made Shahed drones per month against Ukraine, up from roughly 800 per month just a year earlier. In May 2025, Pakistan fired over 600 drones at India during the four-day conflict between the two countries last year. Within the three conflicts over three theaters, one pattern emerges: the importance of volume.
For 30 years, Western defense establishments operated on a particular logic: the future of warfare belonged to precision, stealth, and network dominance. Massed firepower was passé. Artillery was a relic of the past world wars. The “Revolution in Military Affairs,” validated by the Gulf War’s surgical air campaigns, had rendered volume irrelevant. Stealth and precision would rule the future.
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