While the U.S. evaluated the consequences of the attack on future peace prospects, America is largely unprepared to defend against the possibility that an adversary could unleash a similar covert drone attack against key assets situated on American soil in the future, national security experts explained to the DCNF. China has already engaged in extensive internal espionage operations in the U.S., including the theft of U.S. military information and trade secrets, transnational repression of dissidents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the existence of a private network run by a Chinese national providing Chinese illegal immigrants with resources to evade border authorities, a DCNF investigation revealed in 2024. “The process of getting the unit cost down is really one of trying to make the technology simpler, and that is something the military has always struggled with because they like bespoke and fancy systems.”
Author: Wallace White
Published at: 2025-06-07 20:21:46
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