Cheap Drones, Expensive Missiles and The Missile Accounting Fallacy

The fourth Gulf War (the ongoing US-Iran conflict, 2025-) has primarily been fought so far with drones, missile defence and unrivalled US air power. Wars in the gulf region have a habit of happening every 10 years or so, starting with the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (and ensuing conflict) and this present iteration. The conflict has…