War Machines: Proliferation of Battlefield Robots Is Just Beginning for US Army
Gina Cavallaro, Senior Staff Writer
Friday, October 25, 2024
Robots and machines are reshaping the modern battlefield, and the Army is working hard to adapt the way it fights—one soldier and one unit at a time.
“As a human, we all have to adapt because the world is changing,” said Pfc. Jessica Sesay, who graduated from Infantry One-Station Unit Training at Fort Moore, Georgia, in late 2022 and is now a member of an experimentation force known as the EXFOR that’s focused on robotics and small-unit modernization.
The 23-year-old Sesay hasn’t seen much of the U.S. Army, but she is confident that troops and robots will work well together. “In basic training, they always say to trust your equipment,” Sesay said. “I’m a new private. I just come in and everything’s going to be new to me, but the more I have experience on it, the more I get to do it, it becomes more and more normal.”
Threats All Around
https://www.ausa.org/articles/war-machines-proliferation-battlefield-robots-just-beginning-us-army
