Air power cannot easily solve mass drone saturation
“So we saw last fall, a great contest, which was F-35 versus Gibera Styrofoam drone, okay? And this is not quite what the F-35 was really built for, but we saw how cost-ineffective that is the solution to that problem. So modern ground-based air defense and current aircraft that we have are not optimized for that mission.”
Force structure must change to integrate drone capabilities
“There need to be some kind of drone units. There need to be people whose job it is to use these systems. It's very manpower intensive if you look at the Ukrainian-Russian armed forces. If you look at any Western military, you cannot fight in this way or adapt it to how you currently fight without force design changes.”
