Nolan Peterson is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and an expert on the Ukraine war. He’s a US Air Force veteran and former special operations pilot, journalist, writer, and researcher who has been published in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox, BBC, Coffee or Die, and others. He’s reported from conflicts in Syria, India, Iraq, Afghanistan, and most of all, Ukraine, where he’s lived and worked since 2014. On 27 July, he spoke with C2SI from Ukraine about his observations of the situation there, especially the drone war and the implications for the US.