[ImHereToVote]

The obvious solution is to target civilians with autonomous drones. Not much different to sanctions in terms of civilian casualties, but much more effective at stopping the enemy infrastructure. Since sanctions mostly kill children and the elderly.

[pbmonster]

Ah, war crimes.

At that point, isn't it easier to just shell those civilians if they are in drone range, or cluster/fire bomb them if you need to fly in an aircraft to deliver the drones anyway?

Terrorism by non-state actors is a danger, of course, but guys with AKs and pipe bombs storming a football stadium seems easier to pull off and yet hasn't happend so far anyway.

[imtringued]

What's the point of doing that? What kind of mission objective does that achieve? If you want to scare civilians away or deport them, you don't need to kill them at all, you just need to make them run for their lives.

[ImHereToVote]

The same reason you starve hundreds of thousands of children. To spread democracy of course.