🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. military is not prepared for the kind of warfare Iran has brought to the battlefield.
Brandon Weichert spoke with retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner about a troubling weakness in America's military preparedness.
And his assessment was unusually direct.
Manner believes the U.S. military has failed to adapt quickly enough to modern drone warfare, despite years of watching its development in Ukraine.
He pointed to American training centers, where troops encounter drones but rarely face the intensity of coordinated swarms seen on today's battlefields.
That matters because American bases in the Middle East are fixed targets, while any ground operation against Iran would expose entire formations and their supply networks.
We also discussed the death of Master Sergeant Nicole Amor and five fellow soldiers in an Iranian drone attack in March.
Her husband has publicly questioned whether failures in military leadership contributed to their deaths.
Manner believes inadequate counter-drone defenses may have played a role, although he acknowledged he had not personally inspected the facility's defenses.
And he warned that sending American ground forces into Iran could trigger a much wider escalation.
The U.S. military has spent decades preparing to fight with overwhelming technological superiority. Manner's concern is that its enemies have learned how to challenge that advantage with weapons costing a fraction of the price.
And American troops could end up paying for the gap in preparedness.
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