The threat of drones

Axios - Swarms of low-cost drones powered by AI — perhaps hundreds of them at the same time — could soon pose an existential threat to America's hulking war machinery. Advanced militaries can largely fend off individual drones. But swarms of them deployed on a single target have the potential to reshape the global balance of power.  Future battles will be fought with a connected mix of cheap weapons — not sophisticated weapons systems that only superpowers can afford, retired Adm. James Stavridis and Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman argue in a Wall Street Journal essay.  Expensive aircraft carriers or stealth bombers, which require massive time commitments to develop and build, will become vulnerable to drones that almost every military and armed group can access. The use of lethal drones has exploded in conflicts around the world.  More