January 30, 2025

Colombia Tariffs, Banning Chinese Drones, and Stacie Pettyjohn on Drone Warfare

By: Emily Kilcrease, Stacie Pettyjohn and Geoffrey Gertz

Emily and Geoff play a quick round of Tariff Tarot to dissect Trump’s tariff threats on Colombia last weekend. Then they dig in to the bipartisan debate over banning various connected products, including drones, from China, and explain why this may be one area of continuity between the Biden and Trump administrations. Finally, Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn, senior fellow and director of the CNAS Defense Program, joins to discuss her research on how drones are changing warfare and why the United States needs to invest in the drone industrial base.

“Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain: Unmanned Aircraft Systems”

Stacie Pettyjohn, Hannah Dennis and Molly Campbell, “Swarms over the Strait: Drone Warfare in a Future Fight to Defend Taiwan”

Stacie Pettyjohn, “Evolution Not Revolution: Drone Warfare in Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine”

Emily Kilcrease, “Using a Sanctions Framework to Fix the ICTS Executive Order,” Lawfare

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