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Samuel Bendett says, “Cheap drones being ubiquitous and available across the entire front means that any movement of personnel or weapons systems is going to be observed, tracked and potentially struck.”

Dmitry Gorenburg says, “The optics of Ukraine defending may not be ideal, but as a military strategy in a long war, it may make sense to force the Russians to expend their resources, recapitalize, and then return to the offensive later.”

Samuel Bendett says, "This year was critical to the Russian efforts to field this tech in large numbers, and an even bigger effort should be expected in 2024."

Samuel Bendett says, "The Russians have a specific model which addresses a lot of requirements in battle and that's a relatively capable system that keeps getting improved which is why the Ukrainians are now publicly saying that it's dangerous."

Samuel Bendett says, “Chief of Staff Valerii Zaluzhnyi interview with the Economist was very detailed and was very honest. He did speak about the need for another set of weapons and systems to break out of this positional warfare and the stalemate that the Ukrainians and Russians are finding themselves in right now. “

Jeremy Sepinsky says, “But if some of the things I’ve seen about the wargaming center come to fruition, then they might be able to do that,” he said. “You can have ground forces in the field at [Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California] that are executing some operation that shows up on a computer screen for someone at the wargaming center that is controlling … similar forces to enable that combined training.”

Bryce Peterson says, “The more headway you have, the longer you can be out of custody, the easier it is for you to stay out of custody.”

Samuel Bendett says that the TB2's vulnerability to more advanced air defense systems was evident before the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine.

Samuel Bendett says, “The Russian sources are reporting that Ukrainian soldiers are attempting landings near or across the Nupoor River. There has not been a lot of change again. This is the statement that we repeated for weeks because it is difficult to attack lines that are entrenched and well-defended.”

Joshua Tallis says, “It’s not accidental that our renewed interest in Greenland’s economic security coincides with the reopening of our diplomatic presence in Nuuk and the renewed desire [for our military] to operate more routinely out of northern Greenland.”

Samuel Bendett says, “Both sides in the Ukraine war are supplying many thousands of them per month.”

Samuel Bendett says that the Ukrainian government will have to go all-in on a few select models of drones.

Kevin Pollpeter and other writers in an October 2021 report characterize intelligent warfare as the extensive application of AI in all military applications, stressing the importance of data, algorithms and computing power.

Samuel Bendett says, “One of the biggest issues in this war has been how far can each side strike the advisories position, how far from the contact line and how far beyond the line of combat can they reach.”

Samuel Bendett says that Israel could use its reconnaissance drones and kamikaze drones, like the Harop, among others to attack targets on the ground as well.

Samuel Bendett says, “It’s possible that numerous commercial drones like [Chinese] DJIs may be used by Hamas for ISR and combat against Israeli ground forces. But overall, wars are still fought by ground forces since wars are about holding territory, clearing out the adversary and controlling captured populations.”