We’ve fallen in love with drones, but they’re not the sole answer – POLITICO

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Her new book, “The Undersea War,” is out later this year.

Credit where credit is due: Ukraine is slowly changing the course of the war following Russia’s 2022 invasion.

It’s doing this in many ways, but what has generated the most excitement is its clever and extensive use of drones. In fact, it has created so much admiration for its approach that in some quarters, drones are now being touted as Wunderwaffen for Europe’s NATO nations — the kind of weapon that can single-handedly transform a country’s defense.