People today still talk about armies and battlefields but those days are over. There is no need to fight your way through the enemy's army and defenses in order to destroy him because now you can simply send flocks of drones armed to destroy the things that make a nation. Why wouldn't you send drones to kill the leadership of the enemy? Why wouldn't you destroy their electrical grid and keep it offline forever? Why wouldn't you attack their nuclear power plants, ammo plants, weapons factories, aircraft, airports, seaports and damns?
We have now achieved total offensive dominance and there is no going back now.*
*This only last until the defense against drones reaches 99.9999% effectiveness. We might also start by hanging all drone operators and nuking their capital cities.........and also the places the people actually like.
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"We might also start by hanging all drone operators"
Sorry! that would be like hanging the guy carrying the gun
could, however, bomb all facilities that make drone components
regrettably all the studies and all the science seems to indicate that you can never bomb away industry. Despite the heaviest bombing you can imagine the industry in the Reich and Japan continued damned near unabated right up until they ran out of fuel.
The real problem going into the future is right out of "Snow Crash" and every man is now a sovereign if he wants to be and has the dosh and the hatred and animus to make true war against the State. Of course, it's been that way for some time but in the past the State had not made nearly as many enemies.
It's kind of amazing how prescient the author of, "The Moon Goddess and the Son" was when proposing disaffected college students hiring a little expertise to manufacture killer drones they launched at targets in the middle east almost 40 years ago.
no argument. but I notice you still didn't discuss my argument about the poor, plodding GI; should we also hang all our adversaries when captured?.
like all new technology (the sharpened edge of the sword vs. the tree branch) what we need is a proper drone seeker: then a modified flying shotgun will do the trick.
I'm thinking something like a high-tech blunderbus with a target seeking radar. Forget about long range decimation of the flocks, you're going to need to identify the ones on killing vectors and take them out at short range very very quickly. The gun trucks would make very handy decoys too.
To address the GI is to finesse the whole range of "modern warfare." Didn't you enjoy reading all the Science Fiction from the 60 and 70s when a single GI was going to screw up the invading alien armadas by being cleverer and smarter? I enjoyed Laumer's bolo but he created a terrible universe for them to play in.
I think what will/could set this "modern warfare" apart from all the other "modern warfares" in the past is the existing reality of immediately targeting and killing the commanders anywhere they are and how they are now at the mercy of the lowest of the low who thinks nothing of smuggling his little personal iphone or fitbit into the C4I node carefully hidden in a galaxy of RF signals.
Good Lord, remember they were going to remote the antenna farms away from the actual node so they could provide C2 from a nice secure bunker? The West has never played against a peer adversary who is going to wipe out the higher echelons of command not just above battalion but all the way up to Army and Army Group if they ever reappear.
People worry about the relentless unstoppable terminator killer bots and almost nobody realizes that they are over the battlefields in Ukraine literally every single day seeking out GIs with IR and explosives.
I would not have thought the front lines in the Somme, or Petersberg or Normandy were viable but once you accept the cost to be paid, we will still find men made to pay it and generals and leaders that demand it.
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