Is the US Ready for the Next War – New Yorker
Highly recommended also is a more recent article focusing on Ukraine, the epicenter of the new drone warfare: Drones Now Rule the Battlefield in the Ukraine-Russia War – The New York Times
Filkins focuses quite a bit on US drone technology company Anduril, which got a critical close-up in the Wall Street Journal last fall (gift link – no paywall):
A detailing of some of the stumbles as the US tries to get ahead of the trend (gift link – no paywall): https://www.wsj.com/
Problems with the technology emerged recently in Texas: El Paso Incident Highlights Gaps in America’s Drone Defense Industry – The New York Times
And the NY Times Editorial Board weighs in: Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up? – The New York Tim