The draft defense authorization bill that the House Armed Services Committee plans to mark up in the coming days would require the Pentagon to set up counter-drone defenses at a handful of military-related facilities inside the United States.
The mandate is one of several ways the measure manifests deep congressional concerns about whether the U.S. military and American society more broadly is responding quickly and properly to advances in warfare in ongoing wars.
One key question concerns how American forces — both overseas and in stateside bases — might defend against lethal drones. Such weapons are on display in great numbers in conflicts from Ukraine to the Red Sea, and China is producing them en masse and less expensively than America is.
