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Author: Michael
If you’ve ever watched DreamWorks’ “Trolls” movies, you know they’re more than a colorful animated movie series with catchy songs that get stuck in your head. Beneath the glitter, scrapbooks, subtle adult humor, and dancing, lies some surprisingly relevant lessons for today’s military-connected community.
It’s a lesson that is applicable for adults and children alike.
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Military life isn’t unlike the world of the Trolls.
The war in Ukraine has become increasingly technological. Take unmanned systems: Kyiv has successfully implemented a drone strategy that combines a drone wall along the immediate front, long-range drones that strike deep inside Russia, AI-enabled mid-range drones that target logistics behind the front, and naval drones that help enforce a blockade at sea. Cheap technology, paired with intelligence operations, is also expanding Ukraine’s global reach.
The media narrative is familiar and seductive. Ukraine has become a battle laboratory for inexpensive, rapidly iterated drones—FPV (first-person-view) strike systems, fiber-optic variants that shrug off jamming, sensor-to-shooter networks, and production tempos measured in the hundreds of thousands per month. American officials praise the innovation, integration, and rapid adaptation. Pentagon programs are already purchasing selected Ukrainian systems or facilitating U.S. production lines. Ukrainian manufacturers have shipped FPV drones to U.S. forces.
Let me be unequivocally clear from the outset: I fully support taking proactive military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran. For over four decades, Tehran has posed a clear and present threat to global stability, continuously destabilizing the Middle East, sponsoring proxy terror, and maintaining a blood-stained record of complicity in the deaths of hundreds of Americans. The necessity of confronting this fanatic regime—particularly as it inched dangerously close to the nuclear threshold—is unassailable.
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