Beneath the daily headlines of strikes and counterstrikes in the Middle East, war is being utterly transformed. In the first week of Tehran’s retaliation campaign, drones accounted for about 71 percent of recorded strikes on Gulf states. The United Arab Emirates alone reportedly faced 1,422 detected drones and 246 missiles in just eight days. We could already glimpse many of these trends in Ukraine. But in Iran, an outline of the future of war has definitively come into view.

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