Killing the most wanted cartel kingpin in the world sounds like a victory. Clausewitz would say: it depends on whether he was actually the center of gravity — or just the most visible node.
Whether or not Iran's new naval missile is actually hypersonic is the wrong question. The right question is what a 90-mile sea-based SAM bubble does to the strategic calculus for US carrier operations in the Persian Gulf.
In July 2025, Ukraine captured Russian soldiers using an assault force made entirely of drones and robots. The future of land warfare isn't theoretical anymore — it's operational. The strategic implications for everything from conscription to defense economics haven't been absorbed yet.