If the Pentagon succeeds with an ambitious drone project, it could deter China from invading Taiwan or, paradoxically, make a hot war less hellish.
The cognoscenti in Washington are mentally preparing for war. Not so much in Ukraine or the Middle East, where they’re trying to keep the United States out of the fighting that’s raging already; but in the Taiwan Strait, where the shooting hasn’t started yet. If and when it does, everyone agrees, the resulting Sino-American clash would be hell. The question is, exactly what kind of hell?
Some “war games” (as think-tankers insist on calling their macabre tabletop exercises)
