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Strait of Hormuz: Air denial lessons for Western airpower

The narrow waterway of the Strait of Hormuz carries more weight than its 21-mile width suggests. Through this strategic ...
The Economist

The grim tactical lessons Western armies are taking from Gaza’s war

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One Ukrainian operation holds some of the most important lessons for the West as it readies for future drone wars

Operation Spiderweb used drones to destroy billions of dollars' worth of Russian aircraft.
The Diplomat

Lessons From How Western Intelligence Tracked Imperial Japan’s Aviation Technology

In a recent trio of posts at the blog From Balloons to Drones, Justin Pyke (a Canadian scholar working on military and intelligence history) tracked how Western intelligence evaluated Japanese ...
The Conversation

Five years of war in Syria: five lessons Western leaders haven’t learned

The ink had barely dried on the Munich ceasefire agreement announced on February 11 by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when only a few days later Syrians and others were casting doubt that it could ...
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Five years of war in Syria: Five lessons Western leaders haven’t learned

The ink had barely dried on the Munich ceasefire agreement announced on February 11 by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when only a few days later Syrians and others were casting doubt that it could ...