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Send us Fan Mail Apparently the military needs another combatant command. This one, though, might actually make sense. Trent and Peaches break down the proposed four-star command focused on autonomous warfare — unmanned aircraft, robotics, counter-drone systems, networks, software, offensive capabilities, defensive capabilities, and all the other technology that has gone from “cool science project” to absolutely essential on the modern battlefield. Ukraine made the problem impossible to ig...
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