Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about “Uncle Sam” ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.
The US Paper War Tiger is Way Behind
The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass" efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system...