WarTalk: Kofman on Starlink + What Ukraine Can Teach the U.S. Military

Buying drones is meaningless without force-structure changes; the U.S. military lacks decoy culture and no longer owns the night.

• Starshield throttling: A velocity limit (unstable between 80–160 km/h) on Starshield-linked Ukrainian strike drones degraded mid-range strike (MISD) and jet-powered interceptor operations, apparently tied to a Trump-Musk decision amid a U.S.-Russia diesel import dispute, with no clear strategic rationale given.
• U.S. still holds leverage: Kofman says Washington retains 'quite a bit' of leverage via intel-sharing and munitions/air-defense supply, and cutting it wouldn't collapse Ukraine's front but would reshape Russian negotiating expectations and worsen Ukraine's winter air-defense posture.

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