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• The US Shot Down a Mysterious Enemy Drone Over Syria

  A US Air Force F-15 jet fighter has shot down a large, armed drone that attacked pro-US forces near At Tanf, a strategic town in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq. ...

• Armed Robots: US Lags Rhetoric, Russia

  AUSA: American military leaders talk how artificial intelligence will change the face of war, but the unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) actually in development are much more mod...

• UAS are everywhere, and it takes all types of technology to defeat them

  The drone buzzed over U.S. ground troops in southern Syria. It was big, about the size of a Predator, and it was armed. Without warning, it fired. The munition “hit dirt,” a P...

• China, Russia and the U.S. are running neck-and-neck in an AI military arms race.

  A new Harvard Kennedy School study concludes AI could revolutionize war as much as nuclear weapons have done. China and Russia have also reached effective technological-milita...

• Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

  The weapons of war and terrorism are on the cusp of a revolution that will change the battlefield and the world in ways that we're just coming to understand. That future is ju...

• The CIA wants permission to kill terrorists in Afghanistan with drones, which could endanger U.S. troops

  The CIA is pushing for approval to conduct lethal drone strikes in Afghanistan for the first time, an idea that some in the Pentagon reportedly worry could place U.S. troops i...

• Drones Podcast Series: Military and Non-State Actor Uses of Commercial Drones

• Drone swarms vs conventional arms: China’s military debate

  With their tiny propellers buzzing, the fleet of Chinese aircraft, little larger than model planes, are flung into the air one at a time by huge rubber bands. Soon the sky is ...

• The Coming Drone Wars: A Headache in the Making for American Foreign Policy

  In June, the United States shot down two Iranian-made armed drones used by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. The fact that the shoot down (and the existence of the armed dron...

• Drones Podcast Series: Drones and the MTCR

  In this episode of the Drones Podcast Series, CNAS experts Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander, and Paul Scharre discuss the Missile Technology Control Regime....

• CNAS Press Note: Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Comments on Autonomous Weapons

  Autonomous weapons are again under public debate after Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva testified on the ethics of autonomous weapons. To provide fur...

• Drones Podcast Series: U.S. Policy and Exports

  On this episode, Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, and Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss U.S. policy changes on unmanned aircraft exports in recent years....

• AI Could Revolutionize War as much as Nukes

  In 1899, the world’s most powerful nations signed a treaty at The Hague that banned military use of aircraft, fearing the emerging technology’s destructive power. Five years l...

• Time for US to treat modern drones like aircraft, not missiles

  President Trump’s decision last month to sell MQ-9B Guardian drones to India represents a significant shift in U.S. drone export policy. International transfers of drones like...

• Drones Podcast Series: Transparency on Use of Drones

  Luke Hartig, a fellow in New America's International Security program, and Loren DeJonge Schulman, a senior fellow at CNAS, discuss transparency on the U.S. use of drones. Hos...

• Drones Podcast Series: Emerging Norms

  Rachel Stohl, a senior associate with Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries Initiative, joins CNAS' Paul Scharre and Alexandra Sander to discuss emerging norms for drone...

• Report Tells Pentagon to Beware Nuclear Drone Bombers

  The U.S. Air Force’s future B-21 Raider bomber may have the option to remove the human pilots from the cockpit and effectively become a large drone bomber. In one of the more ...

• China Profits as US Hesitates on Selling Armed Drones

  More than 15 years after a U.S. Predator drone launched its first Hellfire missile, the United States remains reluctant to sell armed drones to even its closest allies. That h...

• Drones aren't missiles, so don't regulate them like they are

  This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a voluntary arrangement founded by seven countries in 1987 to prevent the spread of longe...

• Drones Podcast Series: Patterns of Proliferation

  Dan Gettinger of the Center for the Study of the Drone, UPenn Professor Mike Horowitz, and CNAS Research Associate Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss patterns of dr...