Sam Lair
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Iran
May 27, 2026
Dark Eagle in the Desert: Considerations for Deploying LRHW to CENTCOM
At the end of April, Gerry Doyle at Bloomberg reported that CENTCOM had requested the deployment of Dark Eagle to the Middle East. Also known as the...
Sam Lair • Foreign Policy Research Institute
Air Warfare
April 10, 2026
The UAV-Enabled Anti-Air Defense Campaign in the Third Gulf War
In late 2020, drones burst onto the national security scene in a new way. During the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Turkey and Armenia that year, videos...
Sam Lair • Foreign Policy Research Institute
Air Warfare
October 20, 2025
Shallow Ramparts: Air and Missile Defense in the June 2025 Israel-Iran War
Introduction There are two remarkable stories about defenses during the war between Israel and Iran in June 2025. One is the failure of Iran’s...
Sam Lair • Foreign Policy Research Institute
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