I'm John Basswood, Colonel Jeff McCausen, United States Army retired, CBS News, Dickinson College, Diamond Sixth leadership and strategy.

A strange event has happened in Ukraine. Both sides are turning into drone masters. Russia has recently stood up a whole polytechnic university to recruit young men. I presume it's young men, they don't say it, but that's the

presumption, who are good at video games and train them to be drone operators at long distances.

In other words, attack drones, suicide drones. They're building more and more of them bigger and

better payloads. In the same instance, Ukraine has become the boutique of the

world for drone technology, exporting its builders and designers to the Gulf and to other states.

Jeff, we're moving into what appears to be a new understanding of warfare, or is it just temporal?

No, it's actually a whole new type of warfare job.

We talked about the war in Ukraine for a long time now, over four years, and we sat at the onset

and reminded us of World War I, because the killer on the battlefield at the onset was

initially the anti-tank

weapon that the Ukrainians used to great effect.

And then, of course, it was artillery, not unlike World War I.

And the question became, who could develop the most 155 artillery rounds seem to have

the upper hand.

One reason why the Russians signed an agreement with the North Koreans was the North Koreans

had lots of 155 artillery shells or 152 perhaps, and they could produce a lot more.

But over time, then, we went to the drone and the system of the drone, whereby the drone

can acquire a target.

The system can communicate that quickly to a processor. Processor can pick a

platform to engage that target. Prioritories prioritize the target, get the information to the platform,

be it another drone, artillery, aircraft, missile, whatever, and engage. And the Ukrainians have found

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