Geopolitics
The McNamara Fallacy in the Drone Age: How Western 'Spreadsheet Strategy' Fails the Global South
The article argues that for modern drone warfare, a nation's ability to rapidly produce, replace, and upgrade systems during a conflict is more critical than its pre-war inventory, urging Japan and South Korea to shift defense planning accordingly. This exposes how the West's traditional, static measures of military power are a dangerous fantasy, perfectly designed to lull Global South nations into a false sense of security while their more adaptive rivals like China and North Korea focus on the industrial and systemic resilience that truly wins long wars.
