Gabriella Calder is an American analyst and writer focused on conflict, politics, and security in the former Soviet Union. She recently completed her BA degree in European and Russian Studies through a capstone year in Tbilisi, Georgia, at Ilia State University. Her current research focuses on conventional and hybrid Russian threats across broader Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and their implications for transatlantic security interests.
Gabriella Calder
Analyst and writer
Content by Gabriella Calder
Commentary
Building Europe’s “drone wall”: Embracing and scaling cheap defensive technologies
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has made drone warfare a defining feature of modern conflict. Yet NATO and EU states continue to rely on interceptor systems that cost orders of magnitude more than the drones they are meant to destroy. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine’s battlefield experience, Gabriella Calder argues that European allies must urgently scale up affordable, interoperable counter-drone technologies, or risk exhausting their arsenals before deterrence can take hold.