“The calculation being that Trump's pain tolerance is just a lot lower than Iran's — that sooner or later the president will get sick of this war and move on to other things.”
Iran's $35,000 Shahed drones are forcing the U.S. to burn through million-dollar interceptors at an unsustainable rate — the Pentagon spent an estimated $2.4 billion on Patriot interceptors in just the first five days of the conflict. CFR senior fellow Michael Horowitz makes the case that America's decades-long bet on small numbers of expensive, high-precision weapons is now a strategic liability when adversaries can mass-produce cheap, accurate drones faster than the U.S. can shoot them down. The episode is essential listening for anyone trying to understand why this conflict is accelerating a fundamental rethink of modern warfare — and what it signals about U.S. readiness against far more powerful adversaries like China.
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