Chaos in the Gulf has made clear the destructive power of cheap drones. In Ukraine, small quadcopters inflict the majority of casualties on the battlefield. If individually piloted drones can cause this much damage, what might a flock of autonomous ones do? Such swarms are coming, and will change the equation of war. 

Iran’s supposed new supreme leader has not been seen or heard from since the war began; senior advisers have been assassinated. Instead, it is the 190,000-strong paramilitary force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, that appears to be running the country—and the war.

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