wide-area motion imagery was first employed by American forces in Iraq to track down those placing roadside bombs. When such a bomb went off, it was possible to run the relevant footage in reverse and trace the events that led up to the explosion. That often allowed the bombers to be identified and dealt with. Clearly, though, the omniscience provided by wide-area motion imagery can be employed for many other intelligence-related tasks, and the number of jobs the technology is being used for has thus multiplied. Is this technology being used in Ukraine against Russia?

