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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People here are ridiculous. Iran no longer has air defenses. Their navy is destroyed. We’ve hit their weapons factories. We killed 50 of their top leaders on day one. The new leader is on death’s doorstep. The last mile is always the hardest. People here WANT America to fail. It’s either tragically sad, or a psyop.[/quote]

Iran is showing nine of that matters. You just need hoards of extremely cheap drones that can be deployed strategically to keep much stronger opponents at bay.  It is a cost calculation they easily win when they can make a drone for a few thousand dollars while we need missiles that cost a million dollars each.

Taking out top leaders is less impactful when they have a decentralized leadership.

Billions of dollars of the most expensive fighter planes, aircraft carriers, and missile systems are neutered if all it takes are dinky rockets and a never ending supply of cheap drones to bomb Achilles heels.

Modern war has changed. Big expensive and lumbering military forces are so 20th century. Iran and Ukraine are showing all you need are enough drones for 1/1000th the cost to wage asymmetrical warfare effectively.

We should be less focused on ridiculous expenive bombers, missiles, and naval fleets, and more on aerial drone swarms, drone fleets in the water, and AI controlled drones for coordinated swarm strikes.  It costs a fraction of the price. 
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