Drone Warfare Is Exposing a New Critical-Minerals Logistics Problem

Some of the most consequential logistics dependencies in the world are almost invisible. A container of steel is visible. A shipment of automobiles is visible. A tanker carrying oil is visible. Their scale makes their importance obvious.
Germanium is different.
The amount embedded in an individual system can be measured in grams. Yet germanium is used in technologies where losing access to a tiny quantity of material can prevent a much more valuable product from being manufactured at all. That i