This study examines the implications to military operations of the proliferation of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into civil applications. It argues that, by maintaining separate discussions on the topics of civil UAS expansion and military efforts to counter state-based UASs, military planners fail to recognize a changing military operating environment brought about by the proliferation of civil UASs and are therefore unprepared for its emergence.
Not the Drones You're Looking for: Civil Drones Invading Stability Operations
2016
124 pages
Report
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English