Drones haven't won the fight in Ukraine. That matters as the West learns new ways of war.

""These have not won the war for either side," said retired Air Marshal Greg Bagwell, who spent 36 years in the Royal Air Force and served as its director of joint warfare. Instead, the war is 'the same static attritional land campaign' seen in World War I, he said. It grinds on with no major breakthroughs."

""There's a fundamental question here" for Ukraine's Western partners, Bagwell said recently at UK think tank Chatham House. "Is this the war we want to design to fight?" He assessed that what the world is seeing is a 'symptom of a lack of air control over the Ukrainian front.'"

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this month that his country's drones cause 90% of Russian losses at the front. But as James Patton Rogers, a drone expert at the Cornell Brooks Tech Policy Institute, previously told Business Insider, they 'haven't brought victory for either side.'"

Drones are extensively used in Ukraine for targeting tanks and guiding artillery, reshaping combat dynamics. However, they have not led to victory for either side. The heavy reliance on drones indicates weaknesses in traditional military capabilities and a lack of air superiority. Despite Ukraine's success in utilizing drones, which reportedly account for 90% of Russian losses, the conflict remains static and attritional, reminiscent of World War I. This situation raises questions for Western nations about future warfare strategies and the implications of drone warfare.

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