[k__]

Maybe drones will make human soldiers unacceptable in the future.

[intheitmines]

“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” ― Richard Jordan Gatling, 1877

[outside2344]

Should write a MIT case study on that in "Bad Hypotheses 101"

[Terr_]

It's hard to explain without spoilers, but Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power (1958) is relevant to this concept of warfare.

[dguest]

If only wars would end when all the soldiers on one side were dead.

If the people fought before they'll keep fighting, even after their robots are gone.

[theptip]

They will certainly make human soldiers unviable. (I draw mostly dystopian conclusions from that prediction.)

[throwaway85825]

Or it will just lead to lopsided massacres like the maxim gun did.