Cheap drones are devastating Putin’s troops, but Britain shouldn’t ditch hi-tech kit yet

It is true that the pursuit of ever more complicated and sophisticated systems has seen increasing costs and shrinking forces. This, combined with personnel costs, have left European militaries small and brittle. They are capable on a unit-by-unit basis, but have poor levels of readiness and deployability, and the sheer volume of casualties they would suffer in an industrial war would render them ineffective after a few weeks."