US plans for 'Autowarcom' deepen military's focus on autonomous weapons

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by JP/KR/TW: Korea Herald / Taipei Times / DigiTimes at 10 Oct, 06:26 UTC

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans for the creation of a combatant command focused on autonomous warfare and drones. Its planned establishment indicates the turn within the US military toward low-cost and AI-powered systems, which have been pushed to the frontier of defense…