War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore

War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore

The next conflict isn’t coming — it’s already being fought in Ukraine. Not by NATO generals in simulated exercises, but by small, underfunded teams of Ukrainian innovators building the future of warfare with laptops, soldering irons, and scraps of carbon fiber.Ukraine is rewriting the rules of modern ground conflict — and unless we understand and invest in that transformation, Ukraine won’t get the defense funding it needs, whilst NATO nations w…