VIDEO: America Wants Ukraine's Drone Revolution - Can the Pentagon Move Fast Enough?
Check out the video I made for the New York Post
Ukraine didn’t wait for a thirty-year acquisition cycle, a gold-plated Analysis of Alternatives, and a conference room full of colonels arguing over font size.
Ukraine got invaded. Then it turned hobby drones into precision weapons, battlefield scouts, tank hunters, and flying grenades. And it did all of that while actively trying not to lose a war.
Now the Pentagon is attempting something genuinely un-Pentagon: buy cheap drones quickly, in huge numbers, and treat them more like ammunition than aircraft. That sounds simple until you remember this is the same building that can spend years studying a coffee maker if it has the word “tactical” on it.
So, here’s the question this video is actually asking. America isn’t trying to copy Ukraine’s drones one-for-one. It’s trying to copy Ukraine’s speed, scale, and battlefield feedback loop before a fight with a peer military forces the lesson the hard way.
Can it pull that off? And what happens if it can’t?
I made this video in collaboration with the New York Post.
I see you carefully avoided talking about how Zelensky got Trump back on side by offering to partner with Trump Son's drone firm. Trump operates like Russian commissars: give him a cut of the action and he's suddenly your best friend.