Read previewThe simultaneous detonation of thousands of pagers in Lebanon on Tuesday is a harbinger of a darker and more dangerous age of individualized attacks, according to a retired general and warfare strategist.
The pagers were ordered by Hezbollah and were tampered with before they reached Lebanon, some of the officials said.
"This is yet another demonstration that individuals are increasingly vulnerable to highly precise and personalized attacks," he said.
Related storiesRyan cited the use of armed first-person-view drones on the battlefields in Ukraine and Russia, which he said showed the use of lethal personalized attacks had escalated in the past two years.
He said the pager attack on Hezbollah "opens a dangerous Pandora's box" and makes almost everyone a "walking ticking bomb."
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