[thisislame]

Are you familiar with the term "force multiplier?"

How many people has the US military killed over the last 10 years? How many US military personnel have been killed? The ratio is on the order of 100:1. (I'm not making any kind of moral judgement about the US military here, just pointing out it's raw effectiveness at a core competency, which is killing without being killed.)

People are not a great bet in the present technological era.

[Spooky23]

I guess the glow of our glorious and decisive victories in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam blinded me.

People matter.

[ThomPete]

People matter to people. But technology increasingly a competitor to the human workforce more than an ally.

So your argument is preaching to the choir not to that which you need to convert which is technological progress.