Drone Delivery of Bioweapons: Responsibilities for Force Readinesss

First page of Strategic Forum 313 by James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis. A blurb about the authors is to the top left of the page, and below that are four bullet points with main points of the text. The majority of the page is the first two paragraphs of the policy brief.

The U.S. National Drone Association recently sponsored the inaugural international U.S. Military Drone Crucible Championship to provide a venue for American and allied military drone training, advanced piloting, operational utility, and countermeasure capability.¹The relevance—and importance—of such incentives and initiatives is clear in light of iterative development, availability, and utilization of drone technology in military operations and potential manifestations of envisioned large-scale drone employment in kinetic and nonkinetic engagements.² Such developments become ever more relevant and critical, as iterative advancements in the biosciences (for example, synthetic biology, gene editing, nanoscale biomaterials) have potential to be used as novel weapons that could employ drone technology for more facile, effective, and efficient delivery to particular types of targets.³

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