Programming the drones would be a pain. The wikileak ROE from 2008 was 27 pages long whereas Alexa struggles to converse on the topic of two plus two. Maybe s

Programming the drones would be a pain. The wikileak ROE from 2008 was 27 pages long whereas Alexa struggles to converse on the topic of two plus two. Maybe some century we can replace the entire policy generating middle management of the Army with an AI; not any time soon it seems. That discussion about swarms always devolves to "just push human beings near the action before launching the pitbull outta control killer drones" which for the last 30 years has been repeatedly successfully been implemented as modern jet fighters carrying short range sidewinder IR guided missiles, which annoys the people who thought they invented the new idea of explosive drones, little did they know we've been doing that for generations and its unfortunately probably even more expensive than swarms of WWII era P-51s with human pilots.