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21st century automated warfare won't require as many warm bodies. Few have any real idea what it will be like.
Just a few weeks ago, a Russian soldier blew his own brains out when he heard a drone approaching. I saw it myself. Modern warfare is a gruesome business.
Drones are piloted for now, but this is already changing. Fewer available soldiers won't matter. War never changes.
Drone on drone warfare might be how wars are waged, but not how they're won. There's still gonna be lots of destroyed infrastructure and lives lost. Doubly so for any sort of asymmetric war
That's exactly the point I'm making.
I misread the last paragraph, oops ^^
As for the Russians, there were also a few videos of Russians blowing themselves up with grenades when they heard drones overhead. I can't imagine how indoctrinated they must be to prefer suicide over surrender
Their state media has done a number on them.
I doubt they fear surrender.
It’s more like preferring quick and painless suicide over lying in the field maimed and in desperate pain wishing you had died. Maybe you’ll die slowly as you bleed out. May e you’ll be a target of the new thermite drone and be set on fire to die in agony. Maybe you’ll live on in pain and disfigurement with no hope for the future. Maybe you’re not there willingly and do not want to kill or see your friends killed
Still, it's been proven time and time again that the Ukrainians generally accept surrender, even towards drones. It is an extreme decision to choose certain death over a chance at captivity
It's been proven to us, here on the internet, not those kids in the Russian trenches. I find it hard to fault their logic given what they're likely to know.
Eventually we will have drone vs drone and robot vs robot wars.
More like drone versus "strategic targets". Infrastructure, energy, logistics, manufacturing.
Civilians will continue to suffer. Technology can't meditate away the essence of warfare - i.e. "diplomacy by other means".