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Use of drones in counternarcotics

The U.S. is using drones, such as the MQ-9 Reaper and Airbus's Flexrotor, to provide persistent surveillance and targeting-quality imagery in counternarcotics operations.

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Jan 31, 2026

Which technologies (missiles, drones, cyber) pose the fastest‑emerging threats to U.S. homeland defense according to defense experts?

The fastest‑emerging threats to cluster around three technological domains: advanced missile systems (including ballistic, cruise and ), proliferating and swarms, and —now amplified by and automated i...

Jan 25, 2026

Did the Maduro mission use large scale bombing

was accompanied by air strikes and , but reporting frames those strikes as deliberately limited—aimed at specific air defenses and infrastructure to enable a special-forces raid rather than a widescal...