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Military Planners Dread the Arctic, 'Where Drones Drop Dead and GPS Goes Haywire'


An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Sending drones and robots into battle, rather than humans, has become a tenet of modern warfare. Nowhere does that make more sense than in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But the closer you get to the North Pole, the less usef...

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