Are U.S. military leaders preparing to fight the last war, or a modern one with drones, deception and surprise attacks?

If nothing else, Ukraine’s attack on Russia last weekend has cast a light on how the world is changing. Wars of the future could come down to which nation has the sneakiest, smallest and most AI-ready lethal drones.

Kateryna Bondar, a fellow with the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former adviser to Ukraine, wrote recently that Ukraine’s “objective is to remove warfighters from direct combat and replace them with autonomous unmanned systems.”

AI in the sky

It’s AI in the sky. Autonomous drones are much harder to track and destroy than ones operated remotely.

Ukraine’s “Operation Spider’s Web” reportedly took 18 months

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