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Counterpoints and questions: - Non-wired drones can be jammed. It’s early days for building defenses against these attacks. - Non-state actors have far less a
by directevolve 1y ago
Counterpoints and questions:
- Non-wired drones can be jammed. It’s early days for building defenses against these attacks.
- Non-state actors have far less access to the sophisticated intelligence needed to strike hard targets or secure against counter strikes.
- Setting up hidden bombs for remote detonation on soft targets, like the freeway, has been possible, no need for drones. What other factors have been preventing these types of attacks? How do drones change those factors?
If America was hunting Osama bin Laden today, I bet we’d have used a drone to kill him rather than sending in special forces. Likewise, if I was a cartel in the jungle or rebel force in the mountains, I’d be damned scared of the military or police coming after me with an endless wave of drones.
- spwa4 1y ago> Non-wired drones can be jammed. It’s early days for building defenses against these attacks. AI drones can't be jammed. And I wouldn't count on terrorists having qualms about how unethical this would be.
- directevolve 1y agoTrue, but then terrorists need to have access to AI bombs, drones and AI targeting systems.
- scoofy 1y agoThis essay is about state actors and the future of warfare, not terrorists.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoWe must not have read the same essay. You are correct that it is about state warfare but it is also about terrorists. (The word “terrorism” is in the title!) > Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism > But the threat of soft-target suicide terrorism never came to much, because a suicide bomber is a targeting system with an ego. > But a drone is a suicide bomber without the expensive bottleneck in targeting. Their whole point is that the reason terrorists do not employ these tactics is that suicide bombers want to be remembered for destroying the White House rather than some numbered interstate highway; even if said highway is critical national infrastructure. Drones take that ego out of the equation. They don’t care if they’re used to blow up a highway and they especially don’t care that the last thousand drones failed.
- wltr 1y agoWhat if they’d manage to help some incompetent amateurs come to power? Then use them to get what they need.