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Unmanned Systems

SOCOM Commander: Disrupting Supply Chains for Adversary Drones Will Be Key

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, July 26th, 2022

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SOCOM Commander: Disrupting Supply Chains for Adversary Drones Will Be Key

Gen. Richard D. Clarke, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), meets Gen. Rajmund Andrzejczak, Poland's Chief of the General Staff, last month in Poland (SOCOM Photo)

Disrupting supply chains for drones made by U.S. adversaries will be an important undertaking for the Pentagon to ensure U.S. air superiority in future conflicts, U.S. Special Operations Commander Army Gen. Richard Clarke suggested last week. "I've been in the Army for 38 years, and my entire time in the Army on battlefields in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, I never had to look up," he told an Aspen Security Forum discussion on July 22. "I never had to look up…

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