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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Very very soon, "boots on the ground" will involve very few humans, so the casualty figures (for the "good" guys) will keep going down. There are already hardly any humans in the air hunting AQ and T in Pakistan. Soon, I imagine, it will be robotic tanks and soldiers on the ground.
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I've thought about that alot, and I doubt that it will ever happen, because while machines can be very efficient, they don't have the same instincts and survival instincts, and reasoning abilities that men have, they also don't have the hero factor that the odd human has.
MAchines also don't have the moral function that people do. Pretty much if you tell them to take that hill, they'll destroy anything in their way to take that hill, whereas a human will not only take steps to avoid casualties to his brothers, but he might try to avoid civillian casualties as well.
Plus, we've all seen the AI programming for soldiers in video games, the war would never get started because all of your robot soldiers would be stuck in the corner of a field, while your airplanes dive into the ground at mach 5 and your tanks drive off of cliffs while some human general giggles and sends a owned message to his enemy.