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Drone strikes have descended on Iraqi Kurdistan in attacks described as traumatic and unprovoked. The case for air defenses is obvious.
Whether Iraqi Kurdistan can actually acquire them is the question these strikes leave open. When the threat adapts The drone strikes are characterized as the latest form of airborne threat against the region.
"Latest" is the operative word: it implies prior forms of airborne aggression and a pattern that keeps developing. What's changed is the instrument.
The shift to drones tells its own story about how the threat has moved and why existing defensive postures have not kept pace.
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