Autonomy is the ability to make choices yourself rather than having them made for you by other people. Most of us desire autonomy—who wants to be a slave to another's wishes? But we are certainly not ...

Colombian guerrilla fighters conducted 8,000 attacks with drones and explosives in 2025 – Copyright AFP/File Raul ARBOLEDA As drones, robotics and autonomous ...

While humans must stay in the loop for kinetic decisions, empowering drones to operate autonomously is a force multiplier.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. France's President Charles de Gaulle in Canada in 1967. Both countries now espouse strategic autonomy. Bettmann/Getty Images ...

Advances in AI are redrawing what counts as an autonomous weapon system. It is no longer only the effector—the drone or the loitering munition—that delivers force, but also the AI-enabled kill chain ...

Most parents of a certain age, myself included, had to learn to be independent growing up. Many households needed two incomes to sustain themselves, leaving children alone to fend for themselves when ...

Taken as such, strategic autonomy is best seen as leverage and flexibility rather than self-sufficiency. More specifically, it is the credible ability to say “no” to great-power patrons, such as the U ...

Strategic autonomy is having a moment. European leaders are invoking it to justify a historic defense buildup; India’s foreign ministry has made it the organizing principle of a policy that buys ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The first thing to note is that autonomy does not imply withdrawal from the ...