History doesn’t quite repeat itself, but it does upgrade its hardware. 

As Washington’s posture toward Havana hardens once again, the real question is no longer whether pressure escalates, but how and when. Cuba has lived under American coercion for over six decades. That reality is baked in. What’s changed is the battlefield and the tools available to smaller states that refuse to fold. 

So let’s run a strictly hypothetical scenario: if Cuba were forced to defend itself in a new confrontation, what options would actually matter? 

One answer: uncomfortable but unavoidable— is long-range strike drones of the Geran class. 

Unlike Venezuela, where distance diluted deterrence, Cuba’s geography changes the equation entirely. With an operational radius approaching 2,000 km, systems deployed from the Havana area would place large........

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