Dan Goure
Security,
The U.S. military should acquire Drone Guard and move on to address other capability gaps.
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, in the hands of this country’s adversaries, both states and terrorist organizations, pose a severe and growing challenge to the U.S. military. Russian-backed separatist forces in Ukraine have employed drones with precision targeting systems to support massed artillery fire against government forces. ISIS is making extensive use of drones to watch the movement of Iraqi forces. Some unmanned systems have carried explosives. Hamas and Hezbollah have repeatedly sent drones into Israeli airspace. China, Iran and other prospective …read more
Source: The National Interest
