Ukrainian and Israeli infiltration of small drones to target an enemy should make American base commanders nervous.
I've already noted that the Continental United States is no longer a sanctuary for our power projection infrastructure. So it should be no shock that the United States has to defend its air bases here in the United States:
Since 2022, the U.S. Army’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, or JCO, and the RAND Corp. think tank have held six wargames on how to mitigate the drone threat. ...
“The tabletop exercise emphasized the need for a framework to integrate, enable, and synchronize state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities into counter-drone operations at or near military bases,” noted an essay by the game’s designers. But this, in turn, raises a slew of jurisdictional and communication issues.
Yes, while much more can be done on the base and around its perimeter, the detection and action net needs depth with friendly police forces around the bases.
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NOTE: Photo from Department of Defense of U.S. aircraft destroyed as a result of the Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor is shown, Dec. 7, 1941.
