Generals Say America Can’t Stop A Swarm, Can't Win Simultaneous Russia and China Attack As Trump Cuts Korea Drills.
Asked whether he could stop a drone swarm over America, the deputy commander of Northern Command said no. NATO’s top commander warned a year ago about three fronts. This morning Trump cut the exercises with the ally holding one of them.
Lt. Gen. Joseph Jarrard stood in front of a room of missile-defense contractors in Huntsville, Alabama, four days ago. Could American forces stop a drone swarm at home, someone asked.
“No.”
He kept going. “So we are ill-equipped right now to handle something like that.” And: “We don’t have the sensors… whether we’ve got any effectors to go after that problem.” He pointed at the Ukrainian drones trucked into Russia.
Jarrard runs homeland defense day to day for Northern Command. He fields one rapid-response counter-drone team: eleven soldiers, Anduril equipment, working since November 2025.
Then the other half. Western planners expect a near-simultaneous attack, The Atlantic reported this morning, “in which Russia targets a NATO member in Eastern Europe while China makes its move against Taiwan” — two fronts at once, “three if it remains at war in the Middle East.” The war with Iran is on day 170.
General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander in Europe, warned about that a year ago and asked European allies to help America prepare. Strategists asked what the West would do expressed “bewilderment and a bit of shame about how little has been done.” Nobody wrote the plan.
