How the drone battles of Ukraine are shaping the future of war

Ukraine and Russia are now three years into what has been called the first drone war: not the first in which they were used, but the first in which they have been a major factor on the battlefield. What lessons have others drawn about the shape of future wars?

“Drones are here to stay, and they will be everywhere – on the ground, in the air and at sea – in numbers,” says Oleksandra Molloy at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. “The point of no return was…