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yrian President Bashar al-Assad addressing the Arab League Summit in Jeddah (Credit: Getty images)

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Seth J. Frantzman

Seth Frantzman is the author of Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machine, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future (Bombardier 2021) and an adjunct fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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