Winning Time: Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces and the New Dimension of War
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from War on the Rocks · Eastern Europe
In late 2023, Ukraine’s military leadership faced an institutional choice: establish a dedicated branch of the armed forces for unmanned systems or integrate drones into existing branches. Most senior officers I knew opposed the separate force, and their strongest argument was sound within classical doctrine. Each branch of service corresponds to a distinct domain of war: The army fights on land, the navy at sea, the air force in the air. Unmanned systems operate across all of these domains and possess none of their own. No domain, no branch of service. The advocates were mostly newcomer
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