@BashStKid From one of the articles: "The weaponized drone has utterly transformed today’s battlefield. It is the modern-day equivalent of the machine gun of World War I... A $1,000 drone can destroy a roughly $4.5 million T-90 tank... Iran can continue to mass-produce drones at a fraction of the cost of the weapons being produced by the other side..." I think even sea power may now be marginal in the sense that it can no longer be decisive - isn't that what is in fact happening now to the US navy in the Persian Gulf ? It was in the other article I think that the US has already used nearly half it's stock of viable anti-drone missiles - every one of which takes many months to manufacture, at huge cost. "Despite the president’s assertion that “We have all the cards,” almost the exact opposite is true." @ChrisMayLA6