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The natural course of war tends toward a future where polities own, but do not operate, fully autonomous weapons. There will come a day when even the targets, be they military or civilian, are selected and attacked solely by machines. The human element is more creative, though bound by a sense of morality. Whereas the machine is faster, bound only by the thinnest of rule sets. If we're lucky, most of the combat occurs virtually rather than mechanically.