Winning Time: Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces and the New Dimension of War

In late 2023, Ukraine’s military leadership faced an institutional choice: establish a dedicated branch of the armed forces for unmanned systems or integrate drones into existing branches. Most senior officers I knew opposed the separate force, and their strongest argument was sound within classical doctrine. Each branch of service corresponds to a distinct domain of war: The army fights on land, the navy at sea, the air force in the air. Unmanned systems operate across all of these domains and

Source: War on the Rocks