IDK. First, I don't believe there will be any kind of surgical precision with autonomous weapons systems. Human drone operators have taken out way too many wedd

IDK. First, I don't believe there will be any kind of surgical precision with autonomous weapons systems. Human drone operators have taken out way too many weddings for my liking, and the German army obliterated a lot of people gathering around a stuck tanker. Second, with a delay of say 10 years, swarm autonomous drones will be in the hand of insurgents. We've seen how ISIS took out tanks and troop by dropping tank shells from drones. They are not dumb and will happily adopt drone swarms. The science and IT is out there. It is true that armies have a harder time carpet-bombing cities, but at the same time, what modern armies hate even more is losing their own guys. Even a semi-capable killer drone swarm could make it real hard to take and hold cities if seemingly out of the blue your buddies drop dead. Insurgents typically will not care that much if there's dead civilians if they can terrorize invasion forces.