Business | Shooting to prominenceThe Trump administration is cosying up to a clique of “neo-primes”Photograph: Reuters Apr 20th 2026|LOS ANGELES|7 min readTHE IRAN war may end up teaching America many lessons. One that it has learned the hard way is the woeful economics of using traditional weaponry against cheap Iranian drones. “The dynamics of the world have changed,” says Emil Michael, a former Silicon Valley executive who is now a senior official in the Pentagon. “You don’t want to spend a $...