Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Don't Have a Future as Offensive Weapons in Armed Conflicts
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One of the more irritating feature of living in an era where all major technological progress has stagnated, for past two decades, is that most people in the West are desperate to believe in anything promoted as the “next big thing”. That is why so many want to believe in dumb ideas such as the inevitable mass adoption of electric cars, magical and safe mRNA vaccines and “Artificial Intelligence”. This almost total disconnect from physical reality and the extreme willingness to believe in your own bullshit is an interesting feature common to all western societies- which are in a steep and likely irreversible decline on multiple fronts. All of which brings us the issue of UAVs (drones) in warfare, more specifically - the enthusiastic daydreams about how these things (which come in a range of sizes and capabilities) will revolutionize warfare. However, as I will show you in the remainder of this post, their real impact on warfare has been far smaller and almost exclusively restricted to one domain- which was always obvious to anyone who a functioning brain.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Don't Have a Future as Offensive Weapons in Armed Conflicts
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Don't Have a…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Don't Have a Future as Offensive Weapons in Armed Conflicts
One of the more irritating feature of living in an era where all major technological progress has stagnated, for past two decades, is that most people in the West are desperate to believe in anything promoted as the “next big thing”. That is why so many want to believe in dumb ideas such as the inevitable mass adoption of electric cars, magical and safe mRNA vaccines and “Artificial Intelligence”. This almost total disconnect from physical reality and the extreme willingness to believe in your own bullshit is an interesting feature common to all western societies- which are in a steep and likely irreversible decline on multiple fronts. All of which brings us the issue of UAVs (drones) in warfare, more specifically - the enthusiastic daydreams about how these things (which come in a range of sizes and capabilities) will revolutionize warfare. However, as I will show you in the remainder of this post, their real impact on warfare has been far smaller and almost exclusively restricted to one domain- which was always obvious to anyone who a functioning brain.