Wars will become purely an investment of capital, without any of the pesky political implications on the domestic front. So we'll be more willing to dive into them. (Is it even a military action under the constitution if there aren't any people involved?
Everytime I see this one, it seems the assumption is that notions we're most likely to go to war with will also have robotic troops, and it'll be a bloodless sport of SRL-style machinery. But the forcast for future conflict seems to be much more about brush-fire wars, and asymmetric warfare: Their troops aren't as well armed or as powerful as ours.
I think at some point, political aspects begin to take over. The political fallout from a robot killing unarmed civilians is going to be even worse than Haditha or My Lai.
Internation struggle is always going to be an interesting field, but I doubt that robotic soldiery is going to be as powerful a superweapon as they're being sold. The hype sounds all too familiar.
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asymettric robotic warfare
Everytime I see this one, it seems the assumption is that notions we're most likely to go to war with will also have robotic troops, and it'll be a bloodless sport of SRL-style machinery. But the forcast for future conflict seems to be much more about brush-fire wars, and asymmetric warfare: Their troops aren't as well armed or as powerful as ours.
I think at some point, political aspects begin to take over. The political fallout from a robot killing unarmed civilians is going to be even worse than Haditha or My Lai.
Internation struggle is always going to be an interesting field, but I doubt that robotic soldiery is going to be as powerful a superweapon as they're being sold. The hype sounds all too familiar.