Browsing: All news

Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign

Marshall Kosloff talks with Stacie Pettyjohn about the roles of uncrewed systems and artificial intelligence in shaping the future of war. Image: Capt. Owen Dietrich
The post Drones, AI, and the Changing Nature of Warfare appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Sara B. Castro, Mission to Mao: U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach Fredman, The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022). Confucius says, “To have friends come from afar to visit, is that not, indeed, a joy?” Not always, as it turns out — at least when those friends are Americans coming to help in World War II.

As they continue to investigate and resolve a growing caseload of hundreds of reports from current and former government officials about encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), personnel in the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) are also launching new projects and resources to declassify materials, promote transparency and enhance collection capabilities.

The acquisition, technology and logistics arm of U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking micro drones that could be launched from a variety of platforms and operate in multiple domains — including in the air and underwater.
A special notice released Thursday told industry that SOCOM’s program management office for remote capabilities is requesting feedback to help identify Group 1 uncrewed aerial systems that could be evaluated next year.
Group 1 drones are at the small end of the spectrum of UAS that the Defense Department uses.