[aogaili]

Yes, but what you are missing the cost of total elimination of the other side.

For example, in Iraq, Saddam was able to use chemical weapons and wipe out the resistance, this is no longer an accepted solution by majority of people on earth.

So there is no real way to actually win a war. If you can't kill or enslave the other population, and the world is not accepting refugees, if you hit one economy completely you might the global economy. So what do you do? there is actually no real way to win a war as those constraints become strong and stronger. You are left with the only option of nulling the other's economy down and hope they would resign, by better co-ordinating your drones and managing your economy, which is a video game in the real world.

[alephnerd]

> You are left with the only option of nulling the other's economy down

How do you (detest this phrasing, it very glib) null the other side?

Most weapon systems aren't developed in entirely separate supply chains - they use off-the-shelf components that are available for commercial usecases as well.

To successfully take out an opponents operational capacity when they are using dual use technology means the barrier between "civilian" and "military" is nonexistent.

It basically means the return to total war doctrine.

[aogaili]

And what is your point? you just re-enforced my main assertion?

[alephnerd]

My point is that this assertion is wrong - "they could easily kill the people, but other nations won't allow it, so it will stop at economical defeat".

It is predicated on the assumption that the new (but in reality old) iteration of war would lead to less civilian casualties.

[aogaili]

How is it really old when we have completely new AI/Robotics enabled warfare that would allow nations in the not distance future (not today) to engage in a war without human involvement? We never had anything like this before?

How would a war like this look like? what does winning really mean? and if your entire drone army depends on a global economy of suppliers, then you can easily cut off.

How is it that old? we never had wars like this..sorry, this is very stupid argument.