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• Trump’s Iran Response Underlines Republican Rift Over National Security

  President Trump’s decision to pull back on a planned military strike against Iran has divided Republicans, pitting hawks who criticized his midoperation retreat against a noni...

• What Will Follow Trump’s Cancelled Strike on Iran?

  Shortly after 4 a.m. on Thursday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired a missile at a U.S. drone flying near the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic gateway for world oil supplies. Th...

• How the Pentagon Nickel-and-Dimed Its Way Into Losing a Drone

  Wednesday’s downing of a U.S. drone by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard exposes a weakness in U.S. operations. The United States has some of the world’s most sophisticated drones fo...

• Trump downplays Iranian shootdown of U.S. surveillance drone

  An unarmed U.S. surveillance drone was shot down by a missile fired from Iran, the Pentagon said Thursday, but U.S. and Iranian military officials disputed whether the unmanne...

• Likely Pentagon Nominee Jumps Into Iran Crisis

  Army Secretary Mark Esper won’t have much time to train up as President Donald Trump’s newest acting Pentagon chief. The U.S. Army veteran and defense industry lobbyist, who a...

• Trump Is Set to Send More Troops Overseas—This Time to Poland

  With a president forever battling questions about his ties to Russia, Donald Trump’s administration keeps finding ways to confront the country. There have been sanctions, dipl...

• Robotic fighter jets could soon join military pilots on combat missions. Here's why.

  Military pilots may soon have a new kind of wingman to depend upon: not flesh-and-blood pilots but fast-flying, sensor-studded aerial drones that fly into combat to scout enem...

• In Yemen Conflict, Some See A New Age Of Drone Warfare

  In January, a group of high-level military commanders gathered at an air base in Yemen. It was far from the frontlines of the country's ongoing civil war. Then, without warni...

• The Knowns and Unknowns of What’s Happening With Iran

  “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there...

• Counter-Terrorism in Syria: More Than Contain and Drone?

  Nicholas A. Heras asks three notable experts on Salafist-jihadist organizations and the Syrian conflict — Jennifer Cafarella, Hassan Hassan, and Sasha Ghosh Siminoff &md...

• Meet the Future Unmanned Force

  Two new autonomous aircraft concepts that promise to redefine the Air Force’s unmanned fleet are moving forward. The latest, Skyborg, is an autonomous drone prototyping progr...

• The Future of AI: Pentagon’s New Center Leading the Way

  Pentagon officials have long said that strides in artificial intelligence technology could revolutionize the future of warfare. With major efforts such as Project Maven — whic...

• How swarming drones will change warfare

  In February, the defence secretary said "swarm squadrons" will be deployed by the British armed forces in the coming years. The US has also been testing interconnected, co-ope...

• Here’s the Key Innovation in DARPA AI Project: Ethics From the Start

  A new effort to build patrol drones for urban fights began by forming an ethics advisory board. A DARPA program seeks AI-infused drones that can help prevent friendly fire and...

• Genocide Swarms & Assassin Drones: The Case For Banning Lethal AI

  70-ton robotic battle tanks? Scary. Three grams of explosive on a mini-drone that knows your face? Also scary. Thousands of such drones? Millions? That’s potentially a strateg...

• A key U.S. ally is close to adding swarming attack drones to its military arsenal

  Swarms of small attack drones that confuse and overwhelm anti-aircraft defenses could soon become an important part of the modern military arsenal, Britain’s defense secretary...

• Artificial Intelligence: Will Special Operators Lead The Way?

  The Pentagon’s new artificial intelligence strategy shows how the military is shifting from old-school heavy-metal hardware – tanks, ships, planes – to a world where software ...

• Algorithmic Warfare: AI Project to Link Military, Silicon Valley

  It was almost a year ago when Google employees made waves from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., by signing a letter objecting to the company’s work with the Defense Departm...

• China is worried an AI arms race could lead to accidental war

  Experts and politicians in China are worried that a rush to integrate artificial intelligence into weapons and military equipment could accidentally lead to war between nation...

• Autonomous weapons and the new laws of war

  The Harop, a kamikaze drone, bolts from its launcher like a horse out of the gates. But it is not built for speed, nor for a jockey. Instead it just loiters, unsupervised, too...