{"id":311726,"date":"2026-02-26T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:09:07","slug":"how-to-adapt-in-an-era-of-algorithm-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/311726\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Adapt in an Era of Algorithm Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/26\/algorithm-warfare-drone-commercial-tech-ukraine-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, only major powers with billion-dollar budgets could strike a target with precision from a distance. Today, commercial technology has democratized precision strikes. A soldier can hunker down in a trench with a simple controller and, streaming video through a pair of goggles, steer a commercial drone with a $500 payload to disable or destroy a $5 million tank.<\/p>\n<p>The barrier to entry for sophisticated, high-impact warfare is collapsing with the global availability of cheap, powerful, and adaptable commercial technology.<\/p>\n<p>Such technology has reshaped modern warfare in recent years, making it easier and cheaper to attack and more difficult and expensive to defend. Soldiers now drop grenades from store-bought drones, commercial satellites sustain military communications, and radios popular with hobbyists can be used for drone detection and even signal jamming.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2026\/02\/26\/algorithm-warfare-drone-commercial-tech-ukraine-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article was originally published in Foreign Policy. In the past, only major powers with billion-dollar budgets could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-311726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}