He probably would n’t have believed you if you had told President Dwight D. Eisenhower that the military-industrial complex he famously warned against would find itself repeatedly harmed by an off-the-shelf product available at the grocery store.
The Oct. 12 tale published in The Wall Street Journal, about how strange drones over Langley Air Force Base have baffled the best of America’s military and land safety equipment, is obviously not intended to leave you with this idea, yet it does.  ,
What are we going to do about the Sightings? is a phrase that the Journal post was good meant to use as yet another example of Pentagon reporting that is now widely distributed.
Military and intelligence officials in these stories, which appear frequently ( possibly with congressional appropriations ), complain to their regular Pentagon beat reporters about how stumped they are by the enigmatic lights in the sky. The Pentagon established the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office ( AARO ) in 2022 to better compile and analyze reports of these reported UFO sightings. Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group ( AOIMSG), which was established in 2021, was earlier known as AARO. Congress has held a number of UFO sessions, ranging from very serious inquiries into the good part of Russian and Chinese drones operating in American national surveillance sites to” X Files” hearings with whistleblowers alleging that the United States has recovered mysterious corpses or, as they prefer to call them “biologics.”
The Wall Street Journal article attempted to highlight how critical drone swarms are being deployed over American military installations and how far away American officials were ready to go to find and stop them. Perhaps the president was interrogated about the enigmatic lights that hang over Hampton, Virginia.
After the robots initially appeared in December of last year, President Biden received a report about the drones, which set off two days of White House sessions. To dispel possible explanations as well as suggestions for how to listen, officials from the Defense Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Pentagon’s UFO office sat down with outside experts.
However, as one goes along, one learns that the only thing these bureaucrats” shot over” were the several suggestions for how to address the issue because none of them came up with anything from plain nets to digital warfare. The majority of these ideas appear to be perfectly reasonable to the everyday user, but all of them were obstructed by one allegedly imposed rule or another.
In the end, the Journal firmly argues that Fengyun Shi, a twenty-something scholar from China, inadvertently crashed his aircraft into a tree, bringing the helicopter intrusions over Langley Air Force Base to a block. Shi’s suspicious behaviour was discovered by law enforcement, and he was taken into custody before he could leave for a one-way vacation up to China. He was found guilty of spy and given a six-month prison term.
This tale provides a true, although perhaps unexpected, insight into British national security. U. S. politicians weave themselves in twists over what they view as impossibly difficult scientific and governmental questions, instead of accepting common-sense approaches.  ,
What if sending thousands of student visas to foreigners from unfriendly countries who are known to be spy to U.S. military bases is as easy as preventing them from obtaining a million? For a solution is unlikely to be considered because it’s just too easy, partly for social reasons, and also for political reasons.
Our national safety equipment is addicted to difficulty. Our leaders feel justified in relying on only the professionals with the best credentials to solve the problems that confront us. The more complicated the issue, the more they understand. The larger the expenses that can be requested, the easier the apologies for when the problem remains unanswered.
Swarm tactics ( whether by robots or otherwise ) aim to overwhelm a single target with numerous autonomous institutions that become more challenging to follow and deal with.  ,
The risk being exploited is not one that is technical. Instead it’s exploiting the opponent’s consolidated and firm decision-making process. This reasoning is being used by Antifa protesters, who aim to swarm legislation enforcement with numerous affinity groups that are freely operating.  ,
Where all tactical decisions are increasingly centralized and frequently subject to political pressure ( such as Gov., a vice presidential candidate’s role ). Autonomous swarming methods win the day in the wake of Tim Walz’s reduction of the Third Minneapolis Police Precinct during the 2020 protests. Crowds can be defeated when individuals and small groups are given the freedom to intervene as needed and cut through the bureaucracy, as evidenced by Florida police’s response to pro-Hamas protests ‘ illegal actions to blockade main roads in April 2024. Where energy is centralized, the swarming wins every time.
When the federal security apparatus claims that if we only gave them more authority, they might be able to battle the most recent and greatest threat, we should be wary. We should be wary of claims that centralization of power may remain so that our safety can be ensured. Instead of battling the crowds that threaten us, we should be on the lookout for ways to decentralize our safety, distribute our duties, and empower those closest to the problem to act with caution.
Kyle Shideler is the Center for Security Policy’s senior scientist for country safety.