Ex-CIA director David Petraeus says U.S. needs to learn "whole new concept of warfare" from Ukraine

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Source: CBS News

April 6, 2026 / 12:05 PM EDT


Former CIA director David Petraeus has traveled to Ukraine 10 times since Russia's invasion in 2022. During his most recent trip last week, he told CBS News that Russia "no longer has the upper hand.". "Over the last two months, the Ukrainians have actually made greater incremental gains than have the Russians," Petraeus, a retired U.S. Army general, said in an interview in Kyiv after visiting units near the frontlines.

Petraeus said that assessment might have seemed unlikely given Russia's advantages in manpower, firepower, and economic scale. But he argues that Ukraine has offset those disadvantages through its innovation in its unmanned systems. Ukraine's edge, he said, is not just the drones themselves, but the system built around them.

"What's the real genius is how they're pulling it all together," Petraeus said, pointing to an "overall command and control ecosystem" that integrates surveillance, targeting, and strike capabilities. At the center is Ukraine's Delta battle management platform, which serves as a sort of "military Google maps", displaying a digital map of positions, targets, and other relevant information, an engineer familiar with the technology told CBS News.

That integration allows Ukrainian forces to possess nearly absolute surveillance and strike capabilities, within roughly 20 miles of the frontline. Petraeus described watching a frontline engagement in which a Russian soldier was tracked continuously by rotating surveillance drones before attack drones were deployed.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-cia-director-david-petraeus-us-ukraine-new-concept-warfare/

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1. No active military dare says these things in public

Eisenhower warned us and it is still 100% true 67 years later. The arms industry is a greater threat to our security than any foreign power. They are loving this Iraq war. using up $1 Bn in weapons every single day and having wet dreams about the 50% increase in spending Trump wants to give them.

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2. Phillips O'Brien has been talking about this for a number of months, along with how the mainstream media is complicit

With the Russian/GOP party in selling a story that Ukraine is finished.

If the EU can pour in some resources to Ukraine, they may be able to push Russia back to a preferable LOC.

It's a whole new ballgame, and the US has the stupidest President and SecDef in it's history in place.

Also, funny how Orange Putin's attack on Iran came a such a pivotal moment for Putin/Russia. As that old Detective saying goes, 'there is no such thing as coincidence'.

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3. Zelenskyy has a bigger hand than dipshit Donny who claimed he didn't have the cards