Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee
today asking for tens of billions of dollars in additional defense spending.
This as President Trump heads to Dover, Delaware today to receive the bodies of two U.S.
Soldiers killed in an Iranian attack on a U.S.
Base in Jordan last week.
NPR's Quill Lawrence has more.
I spoke with three former U.S.
Military officials about this new and rapidly evolving reality of drone warfare.
One of them was General Joseph Votel, who formerly led CENTCOM.
He said the U.S.
Had built up power in the region by building these bases.
Our strength for the last several decades has been our forward deployment and our positioning across the Gulf.
Now we are seeing that that same advantage has turned into a little bit of a disadvantage.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, the enemy had no real range or air power.
But now in the age of drone warfare,
Iran doesn't even really need an air force because its drones can travel a thousand miles and hit U.S.
Bases all over the region.
And Pierce Quill Lawrence.
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