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The use of drones in armed conflicts - Coggle Diagram
The use of drones in armed conflicts
Coming from the post-Cold War era
Rise during the "Global War on Terror"
Used widely against and by Terrorist group in Middle East and North Africa,
First sstrike by the US in Afghnistan in 2001
New modern paradigm (2020's)
New cheap mass-deployed drones, causing massive damages to ground armies
2020 Karabagh war between Armenia and Azerbaidjan
The Ukraine - Russia war since 2022
Affected Populations
Civilians in conflict zones facing new dangers due to the apparition of irregular tactics
The "sky trauma" in regions like Gaza or Yemen, where the buzzing sound of drones is almost constant, causing severe anxiety
Civilians taken as potential ennemy by algorithms
The question of the respect of humanitarian law regarding drone strikes
Investigation by UN Rapporteur on "extrajudicial kilings"
Conventional forces challenged by new cheap drone warfare
Obsolescence of expensive armor
Advanced battle tanks or artillery destroyed by 1000$ drones in Ukraine
The end of the "Safe rear" behind the front line
New infantry doctrine
Anti-electronic warfare
Soldiers trained to mask thermal marks or to scan the sky
Global Proliferation due to democratized access to cheap drones
The end of the US-Israel monopoly on drone techs
The rise of Turkey as a drone superpower
Exporting TB2 drones to allies in Africa and Middle East
Iran's "Drone Diplomacy" manufacturing cheap Shahed drones, and selling them to Russia to bypass sanctions
Absence of effective International regulations and the ethics of a "riskless war"
War is increasingly violent since there are almost no moral questionning when attacking with drones instead of soldiers
Asymmetry of vulnerability between attackers and attacked
The ICT Amplifier
The role of massified Social Media
Used as psychological warfare and logistics
Uncensored video of deadly attack on Telegram channels
Crowdfunding for drones through Social medias
AI and algorithm targeting, with the risk of no human presence and therefore responsability behind drone attacks
Project Maven in the US to implement the use of large scale AI in drone surveillance
Deployment of drone with "Automated Target Recognition", notably by IDF and Russia