This theory comes up every now and then, and they always refuse to answer what happens to your manpower when you shift to cheap, disposable weapons.
Because the answer, of course, is that those cheap, disposable weapons need cheap, disposable humans to operate them.
That’s what this is advocating for; human wave tactics.
This whole argument was litigated multiple times over, long before drones became a thing, and the expensive hardware approach keeps coming out on top. Tanks got taken out by anti-tank guns, so we developed better tanks and better tactics. Planes got taken out by missiles, so we developed better planes and better tactics. The same thing is already happening with drones.
This theory comes up every now and then, and they always refuse to answer what happens to your manpower when you shift to cheap, disposable weapons.
Because the answer, of course, is that those cheap, disposable weapons need cheap, disposable humans to operate them.
That’s what this is advocating for; human wave tactics.
This whole argument was litigated multiple times over, long before drones became a thing, and the expensive hardware approach keeps coming out on top. Tanks got taken out by anti-tank guns, so we developed better tanks and better tactics. Planes got taken out by missiles, so we developed better planes and better tactics. The same thing is already happening with drones.