The Air Force’s top uniformed leader called Ukraine’s drone attacks against Russian air bases this weekend a “wake-up moment” for militaries around the globe, both for defensive and offensive posture.

“This shows us that seemingly impenetrable locations maybe are not,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin told audience members at the Center for a New American Security conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. “We need to pay more attention to that.

“Seeing how we do that in our own homeland defense is one thing … but we need to think about how we integrate that into our force design to ensure that we create dilemmas for our adversaries as well.”

The Ukrainian strikes against multiple Russian airfields June 1 involved more than 100 drones smuggled across the border and laun

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