https://www.rt.com/news/350305-pentagon-isis-drone-funding/
"An additional $20 million are needed to deal with Islamic
State’s reconnaissance and bomber drones, the US Defense Department has
told Congress. The money will be spent in addition to the $190 million
already allocated to countering terrorist networks.
The money is expected to
be given to the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization (JIDO), the
Pentagon’s special office dealing with improvised explosive devices,
Defense News reports.
By the end of 2016, the JIDO with a budget
to deal with new IED threats that emerged during the campaigns in
Afghanistan and Iraq, will become a permanent establishment under the
Defense Threat Reduction Agency."
This is indeed a threat. But it's the usual defense vs. offense escalation that comes with any new device.
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