The painful lesson of fighting on infrastructure you don’t own

There’s a moment early in this war most people forgot about. A strange little scene in September 2022, when an uncrewed Ukrainian sea drone washed ashore in occupied Crimea like a message in a bottle.At the time, analysts scrambled to explain it: A navigation error? A battery failure? A classified system glitch no one would ever publicly describe?Now we know the truth.That drone didn’t fail. It was cut off.