**Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll called it “humiliating” that Ukraine, with a far smaller budget, adapted faster and developed what he described as better weapons. Speaking to** [Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dan-driscoll-modernize-military-hegseth-1235635481/) **after resigning, he said the disparity was a “wake-up call.”**

Driscoll had made the same case while in office. In May, he told Congress that Ukraine’s Delta system links drones, sensors and firing platforms into a single network the US Army still lacked, while Ukraine was producing about five million drones a year. He also created a 600-soldier Unmanned Assault Battalion in Italy to absorb lessons from the war. 

After his September departure, Army leadership ordered the experimental unit back to conventional airborne infantry duties.

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