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I do believe, that it is first not a question of money (being cheaper). You do not have images of flag covered coffins returning home. You have no insubordina

I do believe, that it is first not a question of money (being cheaper). You do not have images of flag covered coffins returning home. You have no insubordination. You have the possibility to do economic promotion without being labeled as doing such (regarding international treaties (at least here in the EU)). You do not need all these training facilities. Just to name a few. So they will even do it, if it is not cheaper to do (imho). And logistics can be automated as well (delivery by drones, something like fueling done by other drones, and so on). I believe we will see drone-carriers analog to aircraft-carriers being at least semi autonomous as well within our lifetime.

SuddsMcDuff 11y ago
Flag covered coffins are a powerful image which help to galvanize the people and maintain public support for a campaign. It's hard to imagine that people will care much if all they see is a pile of scrap metal being shipped home. It'll be extremely difficult for a government to use robotic infantry whilst having public support for such an action. Rather than appealing to a sense of "brotherhood/camaraderie against a common foe" in order to support a campaign - propogandists will likely have to exploit the peoples sense of fear to garner support. This is a shift we have already started to see with the "war on terror".