{"id":22085,"date":"2026-04-13T03:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22085"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:50:50","slug":"natos-biggest-weakness-just-became-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22085","title":{"rendered":"NATO&#8217;s Biggest Weakness Just Became Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US really needs to up their game when it comes to mass, cheap, attritable drones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many US methods are obsolete and America&#8217;s industrial base is not prepared to mass produce drones. Russia and China are already ahead of the US in drone warfare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US needs to work with Ukraine to learn from their experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NATO&#039;s Biggest Weakness Just Became Obvious\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IzuiV2WWoVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US really needs to up their game when it comes to mass, cheap, attritable drones. <\/p>\n<p>Many US methods are obsolete and America&#8217;s industrial base is not prepared to mass produce drones. Russia and China are already ahead of the US in drone warfare. <\/p>\n<p>The US needs to work with Ukraine to learn from their experience. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IzuiV2WWoVU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,553,272,355,797,314,377,259,1070,315,311,619,1055],"class_list":["post-22085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-drones","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-industry","tag-international-relations","tag-manufacturing","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22086,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22085\/revisions\/22086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}