No furher need for CAT, conscripts, ROTC - here comes robotic soldiers

 This is a reason to rejoice.  No fiurther need for ROTC, CAT, mobilization  No further fear, injuries or deaths in training.   Less widows and orphans,  Citizens can enjoy their domestic duties and vacations

Weapons of choice in the future of war?

 Defense planners are rethinking about the investments they have to make.  Some weapons have become vulnerable and thus are obsolete in the future wars.  Battleships were rendered obsolete in WWII by aircraft carriers.   Aircraft carriers in WW2 in the Pacific showed the aircraft carriers to be superior.  But that was 80 years ago.

We can array the weapons as preferred:  more agile, cheaper, and less vulnerable:

1.  Drones  for surveillance and offensive purposes

2.  Smart bombs

3.  Unmanned aierial land, sea vehicles

4  Air defense system

5.  Long range smart missles

6.  Loitering munitions

7.  Robot soldiers  (Roman)

Obsolete

1.  Aircraft carriers

2.  Battleships, cruisers, destroyers

3.  Traditional infantry

4.  Manned tanks

Will AI and software rule the future wars?

All ready there are weapons that are available:

1  Unmanned aerial vehicles, (also sea and land robots)  Similar to transformers

2.  Autonomous weaposn that can determine friend and foe (employing similar technology to  self driving vehicles

3.  Cheap drones that can fight infantry (tanks and soldiers alike)

Questions:

1.  Does this lessen guilt for killing enemies?

2.  What happens to errors in enganing the friendly forces causing deaths?

3.  Will autronomous weapons fight back vs the operators or creators.

 

Is US $800 billion weapons program sustainable?

 Is US $800 billion weapons program/expenditure sustainable?

It is increasingly becoming expensive to have the biggest war arsenal in the world.  To be the defenders or democracy in the world.  

Weapoons equippped with high tech are becoming more expensive to build.   A Gerald Ford class aircraft carrier costs $13 billion to build (taking five years)  An F35 will set you back by $100 ++ excluding the sustainment (maintenance cost)  That isi too much burden for taxpayers to sustain.   With staggering  $35 trillion in debt, there will be taxpayers revolvt.

Elsewhere in the world, the Hamas and Houthi have shown that they can manufacture cheap rockets that can overwhelm the more expensive Iron Dome or Patriot Air defense system.    See how the cheap Russian drones are wrecking havoc on the  multi million dollar Abrams tanks.  And how the cheap shoulder launched weapons from Ukrained are destroying expensive Russian aircraft.

Very soon US taxpayers will search for cheaper weapons that 1.  survival,  2 are not vulnerable, 3.  will not cause death of US military.  (are survivable)

Will future wars be fought like Enders Game?

 It might be.   With increasing use of unmanned sea, land, and air vehicles,  with increasing use of autonomous robots and drones, this could be very well the trend.  No need for large armies, huge arsenal of deadly weapons.  Only kids who are well versed in games - video games.  They can determine the outcome of human civilization

It might be less taxing on resources, less mortality -  thereofore politically and economically palatable.

Let it be.