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America Isn't Ready for the Drone Warfare Era
Advanced militaries from Israel to the Gulf are burning through interceptors against cheap drones while Ukraine quietly becomes the world's counter-drone superpower.
Simon Whistler · June 2, 2026 
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America's New Approach to Air Supremacy: The USAF's Networked Bet
How the US Air Force is trading stealth-above-all for a networked force of data hubs, missile trucks, and modular fighters built for great-power war.
Simon Whistler · June 2, 2026 
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Attack of the Drones: How UAVs Are Reshaping Warfare
How cheap consumer quadcopters, Bayraktar and Shahed military drones, naval suicide boats, and unmanned ground vehicles are remaking the modern battlefield.
Simon Whistler · June 2, 2026 
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China's J-36 Reveal: Did Beijing Just Checkmate America's Sixth-Generation Fighter Program?
China's surprise Chengdu reveal of two tailless stealth aircraft challenges Western assumptions about its air power and rattles America's NGAD program.
Simon Whistler · June 2, 2026 
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Death of the Tank? The Ukraine War's Biggest Myth
Russian armor has burned across Ukraine, yet the tank is not obsolete. The real lesson is combined arms warfare and the cost of Russian incompetence.
Simon Whistler · June 2, 2026 
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Germany's Rearmament: Has the Fiscal Bazooka Fixed the Bundeswehr?
A year after Germany's fiscal bazooka unlocked record defense spending, the Bundeswehr still faces logistics, industrial, and manpower gaps. The verdict so far.
Simon Whistler · June 2, 2026 WarFronts Weekly
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Naval Drones: How Ukraine's Sea Robots Could Rewrite Naval Warfare
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Inside North Korea's Military Modernization: How the KPA Quietly Rebuilt Itself
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Did America Just Create a Secret New Military Branch? Inside the Pentagon's $54.6 Billion DAWG Program
A little-known Pentagon program called DAWG just requested $54.6 billion, a sum that points to a standalone US drone force in the making.
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