Is the Age of Drones Really the Age of Poor Maneuver?

The apparent dominance of drones may not be a military revolution, but rather a symptom of institutional failures and poor tactics in modern armies. History offers a parallel in the "age of cavalry," which began not because of new technology like the stirrup, but because the Roman institutions that created disciplined mass infantry had collapsed. Mounted knights rose to prominence by exploiting the vacuum left by disorganized and poorly trained foot soldiers who lacked cohesion and institutional support. In the same way, the drone's effectiveness today might simply expose a lack of combined arms and a fragile maneuver culture, rather than proving its own revolutionary power.