Industrial Warfare and the Strategic Challenge of Mass-Produced Munitions (warontherocks.com)

• Iran's drone salvos as a blueprint for attrition-based warfare
• Strategic shift toward targeting enemy industrial manufacturing centers
• U.S. defense industrial capacity challenges in potential great-power conflicts

"The conflict with Iran highlights the shift toward mass-producible, low-cost precision munitions, which are fundamentally altering modern warfare. This proliferation challenges U.S. defense capacity and strategic planning, particularly regarding potential high-intensity conflicts with near-peer adversaries like China. The article argues that modern strategy must prioritize counter-industrial targeting—the destruction of an adversary's production capability—to counter the logistical advantages of mass attrition. This necessitates a rapid modernization of the domestic defense industrial base to ensure sustainable operational resilience."