Are automated weapons the next tank?

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Are automated weapons the next tank?
Posted June 13, 2020
Matthew Ader   
 
In December 1918, General Sir Douglas Haig wrote that tanks “are incapable of effective independent action. They do not in themselves possess the power to obtain a decision.” Doctrine relegated rapidly maturing armour to a limited support role. Despite promising interwar exercises, this attitude persisted into the Second World War. Britain, the earliest adopter of armoured warfare, proved one of the slowest to harness its full potential.

Without new effort, a similar fate may meet the automated systems of the United States and its allies such as Australia. The West has led the world in unmanned combat vehicles for twenty years. However, while research and development continue apace, rhetoric and doctrine has calcified. Major powers are conceptualising of automation as an augment and support to existing force structures – not exploring how it might change the character of war. This is a mistake.

https://groundedcuriosity.com/are-automated-weapons-the-next-tank/#.XudN2-d7kuU

[sneakypete]

I have mixed feelings about this. Automated weapons might make a shooting war more likely,which will eventually develop into American's dying or being maimed for life that would have still been home otherwise.

War should remain so brutal nobody sane wants to start one without VERY strong cause.