New Technology Brings New Threats
Andy Oppenheimer | 03/13/2019
The growing availability of new technologies has created new
dangers. The Islamic State has weaponized commercial drones
for use in attacks, in addition to intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance roles. In this image released by ISIS' Nineveh
Province in February 2017, a bomb (in the red square) is shown
being dropped from an armed drone against an Iraqi army vehicle
in the Al-Maamoun neighborhood of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Technology has been rapidly advancing in recent...