‘Campaign mindset’: Pentagon unveils new, formal strategy to defend against rising unmanned threats.
WASHINGTON — Citing the growing threat of unmanned systems in the air, on land and at sea, the Pentagon today unveiled a new, whole-of-department strategy to shore up counter-drone defenses in the near term and to more thoroughly design future forces to fend off autonomous threats.
“These threats are changing how wars are fought,” the Pentagon said in the strategy’s announcement. “By producing a singular Strategy for Countering Unmanned Systems, the Secretary and the Department are orienting around a common understanding of the challenge and a shared approach to addressing it.”
The strategy is classified, but its broad strokes were outlined in an unclassified fact sheet provided by the Pentagon today. Calling for a “campaign mindset,” the document sets out five pillars, or “strategic ways,” that the DoD intends to tackle the unmanned threat across different domains at home and abroad.