Re: Humans will always have the most important battlefield role
The entire point of war is to kill people.
No, no it isn't. I mean, I can see why if you'd never studied military history or new anything rational about modern warfare (other than playing the game), that you might think it, but you'd be wrong.
The point of warfare is to deplete the enemies resources such that he cannot maintain aggression and state function. Think about it: all the people never get killed. From about WWII soldiers have injured each other in preference to wholesale slaughter, because it takes more resources to fix a wounded soldier than it does to dig a hole in the ground and train a new one.
The main problem with drone wars, of course, is going to be the penchant for a certain type of combatant to hide amongst civilians in plain clothes, and for those civilians to allow them to do so. Then, as now, those civillians are going to end up as collateral damage.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
