New strategy wants to counter increasingly complex drone threats January 7 The Pentagon has released its strategy to jointly counter increasingly complex drone threats worldwide. Photo illustration via Epirus. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a new strategy Jan. 7 to counter increasingly complex small drone threats, one that focuses on establishing a common threat picture, architecture and protocol across the services. The new strategy also sets up stronger coordination between other federal agencies in the homeland as well as with allies and partners abroad. Drones are getting cheaper and easier to use and acquire. Small drones run the gamut from being nuisances in the wrong air space at the wrong time to being deadly, aiding adversaries in serious operations such as lasing targets for fires or collecting intel or becoming a weapon itself. Technology development in autonomy and artificial intelligence is making swarming drones even easier to coordinate and integrate into operations.