The Biden Administration Is Preparing to Abandon American Hostages in Iran Once More
While Tehran demonstrates its contempt for the U.S.
April 7, 2021
Starting in the Middle East.
A decade ago, only the IDF—which originally pioneered the technology—and the U.S. had sophisticated military drones. But now that monopoly has been broken, with Turkey taking the lead and sharing its drones with allies in Libya and Azerbaijan. Iranian proxies in Yemen and perhaps Iraq have also used unmanned aircraft to carry out daring attacks on Saudi Arabia, but Ankara has done the most to develop new, and deadly, tactics for using them, as Francis Fukuyama observes:
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Starting in the Middle East.
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