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NATO Needs to Dronify or Die
Illya Sekirin1 July 2026

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- NATO must fundamentally reorganize its forces around drones and counter-drone systems or risk severe disadvantage against adversaries who have already done so.
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A veteran drone operator advising Ukraine's high command argues that drones have made battlefields transparent and massed forces suicidal — and that NATO's…
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