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IDK, WW1 sounds like a pretty bad time.

Fighting the modern US would be also be some sort of bizarre existential dread, knowing that every move you make is probably tracked and you have a decent chance of being killed with absolutely no warning.

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Most likely way to die or become an amputee in modern war is being hit by artillery out of nowhere. There’s no glory in that so recruiters don’t talk about it much.

If one thing the Russo-Ukrainian war footage has though me is that scouting drones plus artillery has given both sides big impact sniper rifles.

ive been thinking that down the line both of these would be moved to space

For Russia, China and US yeah i think you are right, for the rest scout drones will do. Another interesting innovation i saw the Russia making was controlling drones by fiber optic wire to defeat anti drone EW. Im sure Ukraine is doing the same.

Legends of the Galactic Heroes did a great job exploring that theme.

After watching a few clips of drone warfare in Ukraine, I think humanity really needs to start taking a pass on wars.

Sounds excellent to me, but as long as we have drones and they're fighting our conflicts, we should probably think about giving them the vote? (before they start thinking about SkyNet?)

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