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• Commentary
  • April 9, 2020
  Sharper: America's National Security Workforce

  The greatest source of strength in American national security is the people who lead and serve within its institutions. The ongoing U.S. response to the global coronavirus out...

  By Emma Moore, Chris Estep & Cole Stevens

• Podcast
  • January 29, 2019
  The future of war: Autonomous weapons, AI, and cyberwarfare

  How will emerging technologies shape the conduct and consequences of war? And how will they impact civilian security? Today on Displaced, Loren DeJonge Schulman and Erin Simps...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Erin Simpson

• Commentary
  • Modern War Institute
  • April 6, 2018
  Soldier Swarm: New ground Combat Tactics for the Era of Multi-Domain Battle

  When the US military prepares to fight its next major war, it won’t be planning to fight the insurgents it has faced over the last fifteen years. As China and Russia begin to ...

  By Lauren Fish & Justin Lynch

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • February 15, 2018
  Why Drones Are Still the Future of War

  In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air suppo...

  By Paul Scharre

• Podcast
  • August 24, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Military and Non-State Actor Uses of Commercial Drones

  By Jeremy Hsu, Paul Scharre & Alexandra Sander

• • Commentary
  • The National Interest
  • July 26, 2017
  The Coming Drone Wars: A Headache in the Making for American Foreign Policy

  In June, the United States shot down two Iranian-made armed drones used by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. The fact that the shoot down (and the existence of the armed dron...

  By Paul Scharre

• Podcast
  • July 26, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Drones and the MTCR

  In this episode of the Drones Podcast Series, CNAS experts Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander, and Paul Scharre discuss the Missile Technology Control Regime....

  By Michael Horowitz, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre

• Podcast
  • July 20, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: U.S. Policy and Exports

  On this episode, Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, and Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss U.S. policy changes on unmanned aircraft exports in recent years....

  By Michael Horowitz, Dan Gettinger, Alexandra Sander & Paul Scharre

• Podcast
  • July 11, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Transparency on Use of Drones

  Luke Hartig, a fellow in New America's International Security program, and Loren DeJonge Schulman, a senior fellow at CNAS, discuss transparency on the U.S. use of drones. Hos...

  By Luke Hartig, Loren DeJonge Schulman & Paul Scharre

• Podcast
  • July 8, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Emerging Norms

  Rachel Stohl, a senior associate with Stimson Center's Managing Across Boundaries Initiative, joins CNAS' Paul Scharre and Alexandra Sander to discuss emerging norms for drone...

  By Paul Scharre & Alexandra Sander

• Podcast
  • June 21, 2017
  Drones Podcast Series: Patterns of Proliferation

  Dan Gettinger of the Center for the Study of the Drone, UPenn Professor Mike Horowitz, and CNAS Research Associate Alexandra Sander join Paul Scharre to discuss patterns of dr...

• Video
  • June 7, 2017
  The AI Revolution, Paul Scharre the Director, Future of Warfare Initiative

  Paul Scharre is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security at the Center for a New American Security. His talk on Artificial Intelligence and the Fut...

  By Paul Scharre

• • Video
  • November 21, 2016
  Pentagon investing billions to develop autonomous weapons

  By Paul Scharre

• • Commentary
  • The Cipher Brief
  • November 21, 2016
  A Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

  The Cipher Brief spoke with Paul Scharre about the rationale for, and complications presented by, the development of autonomous weapons systems that could eventually choose an...

  By Paul Scharre

• • Commentary
  • August 11, 2015
  Yes, Unmanned Combat Aircraft are the Future

  Will the next U.S. fighter aircraft be manned, contrary to the predictions of technologists and policymakers like Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus? That is the prediction of Co...

  By Paul Scharre

• • Commentary
  • July 29, 2015
  Stephen Hawking Doesn't Have to Fear Killer Robots

  On Monday, a broad group of several thousand academics, legal scholars, roboticists, and scientific luminaries – including Stephen Hawking – released an open letter warning th...

  By Kelley Sayler

• • Video
  • June 26, 2015
  Video: CNAS 2015 Annual Conference - The Promise and Peril of Drones

  By Ben FitzGerald, Kelley Sayler & Paul Scharre

• • Commentary
  • June 12, 2015
  Dawn of the Drones

  We are living in a drone saturated world. In recent years, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have proliferated rapidly around the globe in both military and civilian ...

  By Kelley Sayler

• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • March 31, 2015
  Counter-Swarm: A Guide to Defeating Robotic Swarms

  Swarming with a large number of low-cost autonomous systems can be useful for a wide range of applications in warfare, and the U.S. military should move to harness the advanta...

  By Paul Scharre

• • Commentary
  • War on the Rocks
  • March 25, 2015
  Commanding the Swarm

  Today’s uninhabited vehicles are largely tele-operated, with a person piloting or driving the vehicle remotely, but tomorrow’s won’t be. They will incorporate increasing auton...

  By Paul Scharre