This is GPS, the Global Public Square.

Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the program, as the war with Iran spreads and gets more fierce and more complicated,

we will look at the latest developments with a man who has made a lifelong study

of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the government of Israel.

Also, major energy infrastructure in the Middle East is getting attacked.

What will these attacks do to global energy prices,

to other commodities?

We'll explore.

Then, a look at the other front, Lebanon, fighting against Hezbollah,

with the reporter and analyst Kim Gadas.

But first, here's my take. Beneath the daily headline of strikes and counter strikes in the Middle East,

we're witnessing something seismic. War is being utterly transformed. In the first week of Tehran's

retaliation campaign, drones accounted for about 71% of recorded strikes on Gulf

states, according to a CSIS analysis.

The UAE alone reportedly faced 1,422 detected drones and 246 missiles in just eight days. We could already glimpse many of these trends in Ukraine,

but in Iran, the future of war has definitively come into view. Michael Horowitz of the Council

on Foreign Relations says, we are now in the era of precise mass in war. For decades, precise, precision warfare

meant a handful of tomahawk missiles, stealth bombers, or fighter jets. Now it can mean a one-way

drone built from commercial parts and launched in swarms.

What used to require a great industrial nation's capacity can increasingly be assembled,

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