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The next war will have new and unpleasant injuries so far largely unknown to the world.
by ISL 6y ago
The next war will have new and unpleasant injuries so far largely unknown to the world.
- greesil 6y agoEveryone's going to have to wear really nice sunglasses into the battlefield.
- mikhailfranco 6y agoUsing lasers to deliberately blind people is illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
- 10000truths 6y agoInternational law is a gentleman’s agreement, not some divine regulatory framework. I assure you that such conventions will go out the window the moment they prove even mildly inconvenient to enforce.
- ISL 6y agoAh, true -- I'd forgotten about that. Even in the absence of blinding weapons, warfare and wounds will change completely when an overhead drone can target and burn a combatant in milliseconds. A quick and precise galvanometer may allow precisely-targeted strikes on tens of people in seconds. The combination of projectiles and directed-energy weapons will make defense and evasion much more difficult. David Drake tried to show us the depravity of wars of the past in his work, but it also highlighted the horror of wars to come.