battlefield drones Concepts

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words

summer, cold in winter, it was crammed full of lab benches, computer terminals, and real-time communications links to experimental drones and anti-drone equipment on the mock battlefield outside. Between them, Jacobsen and Beall owned nearly fifty drones of various models and makes. When they offered to donate them to DIUx

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first real project, scouring the software inside DJI drones to discover backdoors and vulnerabilities in the code. Nobody liked the idea of using Chinese drones, but battlefield operators knew DJI’s were better than anything else on the market and generations ahead of the standard-issue portable drones the army and marines

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become a unicorn, rushed its autonomous quadcopters to Ukraine infantry units. BlueHalo, mobilized by a $24 million Pentagon contract, delivered its Titan counter-drone systems to the battlefield, with antennas powered by machine learning algorithms. Palantir, developer of AI-powered data analytics software, sent engineers to Ukraine to help the Defense Ministry

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Ukraine,” one Ukrainian minister said. “What we learn is relevant to all democracies,” noted a member of Ukraine’s parliament. Dissatisfaction with the battlefield performance of Western drones was another motif. “I faced a big wave of disappointment” was what one Ukrainian soldier said about the first time he used a U

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

by Jeremy Scahill · 22 Apr 2013 · 1,117pp · 305,620 words

the Drone YEMEN AND THE UNITED STATES, 2010 —As thousands of US troops deployed and redeployed to Afghanistan, the covert campaign in undeclared battlefields elsewhere was widening. US drone strikes were hitting Pakistan weekly, while JSOC forces were on the ground in Somalia and Yemen and pounding the latter with air strikes

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre · 23 Apr 2018 · 590pp · 152,595 words

conflict is the use of modern automated complexes of military equipment and research in the area of artificial intelligence. While today we have flying drones, tomorrow’s battlefields will be filled with walking, crawling, jumping, and flying robots. In the near future it is possible a fully robotized unit will be created

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks · 8 Aug 2016 · 548pp · 147,919 words

Pakistan had the military capabilities to carry out such strikes on its own.5 Over the ensuing years, the number of U.S. drone strikes outside traditional hot battlefields began to increase, slowly at first and then more rapidly. In 2005, there were 3 reported drone strikes in Pakistan, followed by 2

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powers. To understand how U.S. counterterrorism practices are increasing global uncertainty and unpredictability, return once again to the issue of U.S. drone strikes outside of traditional battlefields. For political decision makers, unmanned aerial vehicles have obvious advantages: they’re cheap and precise, and their use creates no short-term risk

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years, despite international controversies, the 2001 AUMF provided adequate domestic legal authority both for the conflict in Afghanistan and for initial U.S. drone strikes outside hot battlefields: most of the individuals targeted in early strikes were reportedly senior Taliban or al Qaeda operatives, putting them clearly in the category of targets

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have changed in the last few years, as the threat has metastasized.33 As military action has decimated “Al Qaeda Central,” U.S. drone strikes outside of hot battlefields have begun to target not only the remnants of “core” al Qaeda and Taliban, but also known or suspected members of other organizations

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, Laura, 300 draft, 165, 258 Dresden, firebombing of, 133, 138, 365 drone pilots: PTSD of, 110 voyeuristic intimacy with targets of, 110, 115–16 drone strikes, outside traditional battlefields, 3–5, 8, 14, 34, 103, 105–7, 132, 198–99, 226, 251, 252, 273, 276, 291, 383, 409 assassinations and murders as

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023

and Ronfeldt, Swarming and the Future of Conflict; Edwards, Swarming on the Battlefield; Edwards, Swarming and the Future of Warfare; Scharre, Robotics on the Battlefield Part II. 278mass drone attacks: David Reid, “A Swarm of Armed Drones Attacked a Russian Military Base in Syria,” CNBC, January 11, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com

Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

by Medea Benjamin · 8 Apr 2013 · 188pp · 54,942 words

them. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had nearly 7,500. Most of these were mini-drones for battlefield surveillance, but they also had about 800 of the bigger drones, ranging in size from a private aircraft to a commercial jet. Then Secretary of

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$15-million-a-pop system that utilizes multiple infrared and conventional cameras that the Air Force claims will dramatically broaden the view that a drone on the battlefield will be capable of capturing.75 Reportedly, the system will allow drones to monitor all movement within a four square kilometer zone, whereas surveillance

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Time magazine, former General Mike Moseley, like other heads of the Air Force before him, is also a critic of letting non-pilots operate drones in potentially deadly battlefield situations, believing “only a trained pilot [has] the mental and moral heft to deliver bombs and missiles.”171 It’s not just a

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responsibility of the US military.278 This was echoed by professor Mary Ellen O’Connell in her testimony to Congress in April 2010. “Restricting drones to the battlefield is the most important single rule governing their use,” she said, adding that at the very time the United Sates was trying to win

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U.S.-Mexico Border,” Washington Post, December 21, 2011. 93 “Iraqi Drones Not For WMD,” CBS News, February 11, 2009. 94 Tom Vanden Brook, “Drones Reshaping Iraq’s Battlefields,” USA Today, July 6, 2006. 95 Associated Press, “Use of Unmanned Drones Soars in Iraq,” MSNBC, January 1, 2008. 96 Christopher Drew, “Drones

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021

administration, approximately two hundred strikes were carried out against targets there, killing an estimated one thousand people.63 None of these figures count drone strikes on the “hot battlefields” of Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria. Covert Action and Its Overt Counterparts One of the biggest misperceptions of covert action is that it involves

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to roll back suspected nuclear weapons programs by using covert cyber operations against Iran70 and by openly declaring war against Iraq. While many drone strikes off the hot battlefield—in places like Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia—have been carried out by the CIA as covert action,71 in 2020, a drone strike

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar · 6 Sep 2021 · 447pp · 111,991 words

showcase of the latest drone technology. Thanks to its close links to Turkey and Israel, Azerbaijan was able to unleash a fleet of advanced drones on the battlefield, which ultimately gave it the upper hand. Such drones allowed Azerbaijani forces to penetrate deep into Armenian territory and wreak havoc on their supply

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sensors to hunt those targets. The development of facial recognition and computer vision will further add to the power of such technology on the battlefield. A commercial drone not even intended for military use, the Skydio R1, uses a cutting-edge computer vision system to recognise and track its owner autonomously. Thirteen

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://www.csis.org/analysis/air-and-missile-war-nagorno-karabakh-lessons-future-strike-and-defense> [accessed 2 January 2021]. 53 Robyn Dixon, ‘Azerbaijan’s Drones Owned the Battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh – and Showed Future of Warfare’, Washington Post, 11 November 2020 <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nagorno-karabkah-drones-azerbaijan-aremenia

The 9/11 Wars

by Jason Burke · 1 Sep 2011 · 885pp · 271,563 words

destroyed.75 In October, three divisions of troops had finally moved into South Waziristan and, by exploiting splits between militant groups and with US drones feeding intelligence to battlefield commanders, were able to force militants out of village strongholds and into remote forest or mountain camps. The same month the Pakistanis had

The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future

by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever · 2 Apr 2017 · 181pp · 52,147 words

rally.8 Few questioned this use of force. And the first autonomous robots’ use on the battlefield would likely be far away, as the battlefields on which drones first killed were, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Open Roboethics initiative is advocating an outright ban on autonomous lethal robots, a call echoed by