illuminatiscottMon, Sep 7, 2009 @bpwnes - Nations have never been of equal economic, technological, and military strength, and that is why there is always a victor at some level. I suppose I was completely hypothesizing without really examining that concept from a critical perspective.
However, I think we see, in modern warfare, that the invading nation targets infrastructure, communications, government, intelligence and manufacturing centers before all else. Whereas in the past one would receive an enormous boon from killing as many enemy soldiers as possible in a strike, now such an act is viewed as horrendous on the world stage and the political clout that such and act would damage vastly outweighs the military advantage.
I suppose I was taking that viewpoint to an extreme, and as nations make robotic combatants increasingly large parts of their militaries, humans will become even less valuable as targets than they already are.
@bpwnes - Nations have never been of equal economic, technological, and military strength, and that is why there is always a victor at some level. I suppose I was completely hypothesizing without really examining that concept from a critical perspective.
However, I think we see, in modern warfare, that the invading nation targets infrastructure, communications, government, intelligence and manufacturing centers before all else. Whereas in the past one would receive an enormous boon from killing as many enemy soldiers as possible in a strike, now such an act is viewed as horrendous on the world stage and the political clout that such and act would damage vastly outweighs the military advantage.
I suppose I was taking that viewpoint to an extreme, and as nations make robotic combatants increasingly large parts of their militaries, humans will become even less valuable as targets than they already are.