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But hasn't this always been the evolution of warfare? Once upon a time you had to look your enemy in the eye to fight them (sword, axe, fist, etc). And then someone invented the longbow and suddenly an arrow could silently fly out of a thicket 100 yards away and kill you without warning.

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That longbow shot was still most of the time within the combat zone, you as an individual knew that we can get ambushed here.

Today you can get killed even far away from the front in a place that was considered mostly safe in previous wars.

The psychological effect today is much worse than anytime in history.

Yes most of the time, but the occasional unlucky person would still get hit by a longbow arrow from seemingly nowhere. Maybe they're passing by some training grounds or some other non-combat zone.

Good point, I hadn't considered that.

I wonder what the defining moment of drone combat will be? The equivalent of the Battle of Agincourt where English longbows devastated the opposing French force.

We did everything wrong at Agincourt, the English longbows were just the nail to the coffin.

French tactics were so bad that it is said that the English were looking in amazement how we were basically fighting with ourselves (cavalry vs retreating infantry)

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