Bill Cole
To use a great American sport as an analogy, baseball, the United States is playing tee-ball when it comes to drones, while Ukraine and Russia are the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees battling it out in the World Series of drone warfare.
Washington is sleepwalking through the most significant military transformation of our generation. Ukraine is not just defending its territory; it is rewriting the rules of combat in real time. This is not theory. It is raw, adaptive, high-stakes drone innovation playing out daily over Sumy, Kherson, and Kharkiv. Over the past two and a half years, I have been on the ground in Ukraine, cutting my teeth by studying and understanding battlefield technology firsthand and forming close relationships with those serving at the front. These experiences have fundamentally reshaped my understanding of modern warfare and the pivotal role drones now play.
After returning from key meetings on Capitol Hill earlier this month, where I presented the Peace Through Strength Plan: Win for Ukraine, Defend America at Home, I launched the Peace Through Strength Institute to help fill the policy vacuum in Washington. One of our most urgent findings is this: drone warfare is not a footnote, it is the main event, and the United States is dangerously unprepared to compete unless we begin learning directly from the Ukrainian front.
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