OPINION: During a House Appropriations Committee hearing in April, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll emphasized that the U.S. was learning a lot from the Ukrainian military, which has “done an absolutely amazing job of innovating.” Recognizing Ukraine’s extraordinary development and deployment of tactical drones, the Army purchased 13,000 interceptor drones at roughly $15,000 apiece. These drones use the Merops operating system, which employs artificial intelligence to find, fix and destroy