Iran's $2,000 drones vs. America's $5 million missiles

One Patriot missile costs enough to buy about 150 Iranian Shahed drones. Ukraine already showed that a $2,000 drone can take out a $5 million tank. The arithmetic doesn't improve just because the United States is the one spending.

James Fallows, who spent 45 years covering military decision-making for The Atlantic , writes in his Substack that the past nine days of fighting amount to "the most wantonly self-destructive" stretch for the country he can remember. — Read the rest

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