It’s not really about what you like or not. Putin needs to get America off the table. The million dollar question is whether he succeeds or not. Now, we can always hope that Trump is playing strategically in the long haul, but the pattern of his actions so far tells us differently. It is a concern that Putin is stepping up his game after speaking with Trump. Attacking Iran is like bullying senators and congressmen. There’s no real downside. Even Putin doesn’t want Iran to develop nuclear weapons. So he’s perfectly fine with Trump attacking Iran. He’s not fine with America supporting Ukraine. So he let’s Trump know. What does Trump do then? That is what is going to define his presidency.
Trump can afford to be slow and methodical about this one. The real world knowledge we are picking up from this that is right now being integrated into our combined arms doctrine shaping how tomorrow we will fight the next war is invaluable.
Last summer congress passed a bill to form a drone corps under the Army. So at present the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne is this new unit. Of the 21 soldiers in a platoon 9 of them are drone operators with the rest focusing on anti-air and other means to eliminate and deny enemy drones and ensure we have the skies and air superiority.
Hegseth is watching this and it is being considered and analyzed how can we also use drones to also cut cost by replacing helicopters with drones.
Cost as well as the drones we currently have we have seen the weakness they have and how we can cut cost going forward with our drones by eliminating the unnecessary and have them built to specifications to be fully mission capable.
So while it may seem cold hearted fact is we are learning a bit from this current war and how to integrate what we are learning for tomorrows war we may find ourselves in.
So I don't think it is as much of a matter of how this is going to define his presidency as much as we are improvising and adapting for tomorrow. So we can afford to go slow and soak up what we can. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast hooyah.