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Sam Skove

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Sam Skove
Sam Skove is a staff reporter at Defense One, where he writes about the Army and Marine Corps. He previously worked in Ukraine covering the Russia-Ukraine war for The Daily Beast, Radio Liberty, and The New Republic, among other publications. He holds a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Georgetown's Security Studies Program.
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US soldiers will get electronic warfare backpacks later this year

The system is a portable combination of a jammer and scanner.

  • By Sam Skove
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Across the Army, units lean into drone experimentation

In division after division, soldiers are learning to use a rising wave of robots and other unmanned systems.

  • By Sam Skove
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How Army special operators use deepfakes and drones to train for information warfare

One soldier helped create a voice-cloning program using off-the-shelf AI.

  • By Sam Skove
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Marines using cheap commercial tech to hide command posts in plain sight

Command posts must be survivable to be effective, one commander says.

  • By Sam Skove
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Ukraine’s soldiers use cheap tech to hide from Russia’s deadly drones

But the makers of lifesaving drone detectors can’t keep up with demand.

  • By Sam Skove