Local authorities being able to deny building housing with a snap of their fingers is a form of regulation. The paradigm of regulation should shift to work faster and deny all objections without real substance.

It also wasn’t a major problem of course before drones and their cheap air capability, it’s a hard target ground to ground, and naturally proper infantry support could mitigate it quite well even now.

One of Russia’s failures is that the Cold War skirmishes trained them to ignore the realities of large scale ground warfare against and organized opponent, while their western neighbours have given it as much thought as an existential threat deserves.