How North Korea became a drone warfare power through Russia's war | Patrick Cronin
Patrick Cronin, Asia-Pacific Security Chair and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, tells Ian Kalin that industrial endurance is deterrence and the US is falling short. The US commissioned 24 Essex-class carriers in the last 15 months of WWII. Today, it can't produce cheap expendable drones at the scale needed to deter, let alone fight.
Patrick then pulls apart what's actually happening beneath the tactical detente: North Korea turned combat losses on Russian front lines into a real drone warfare capability, AI tools now give individual soldiers their own intelligence picture, and China's…
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