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Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism


Yesterday, Mossad used smuggled explosive drones to assassinate the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, the entire IRGC Air Force senior staff, and several top nuclear scientists in a surprise attack.

Two weeks prior (June 1), the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service (SBU) struck five Russian airbases across a distance of 3,000 miles in a smaller attack, inflicting billions of dollars in damage on a strategic bomber fleet that will take years, if not decades, to replace. Even if a low-powered attack failed to destroy a piece of vital infrastructure like a bridge or overpass, the need to shut a major artery down, inspect the damage, and assess repairs could impose hundreds of millions of dollars in economic disruption. The 20th century world was carved up between two gigascaled superpowers, and finally conquered by one, because there were insurmountable returns to scale: only the biggest boys could field ICBMs, satellites, cruise missiles, fighter jets, mass-media infrastructure, etc.

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