For the past four and a half years, Japan has watched the war in Ukraine with keen interest ¡ª not out of charity alone, but because the conflict offers a glimpse of what future battlefields may look like, including in the Pacific.
In Ukraine, a smaller nation has held a military power to a stalemate by pitting Russia¡¯s expensive and logistically cumbersome forces against a fast-moving, innovative battlefield whose operations increasingly resemble a venture-backed startup more than a conventional military.
Cheap drones are produced at scale, with procurement and production optimized to move weapons to the battlefield quickly and translate new ideas into tools on the shortest possible timeline.
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