June 3, 2025 6:30 am

The Future of Warfare Is Here

And it features low-cost drones basically indistinguishable from ones available on Amazon.

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A serviceman of the Da Vinci Wolves Separate Mechanized Battalion, named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo, of the 59th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, launches a combat drone at his frontline position near Pokrovsk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, October 20, 2024.

Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters

Ukraine may not have “the cards,” as President Trump put it, but it does have drones.

They were used to great effect over the weekend in an audacious attack within Russia that has focused the world’s attention on a revolution in warfare.

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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Ukraine may not have “the cards,” as President Trump put it, but it does have drones.

They were used to great effect over the weekend in an audacious attack within Russia that has focused the world’s attention on a revolution in warfare.