Since machines are being introduced in war,in 10 years will we be needing man power

[Eve]

in war? It's all remote now:we have planes that can withstand flack cannons and evan anti air missiles and other cool gadgets:what used to be toys are reality now,so in this situation,will we be sending more men to The Middle East in a few years?Thank you!

 

[Damocles]

Well, every new invention has promised to make troops on the field obsolete - tanks, airplanes, machine guns - you name it. Hasn't happened yet. I do think that remotely controlled airplanes will replace piloted ones. An airplane can pull about 9G's turning pulling upwards, about 3G's going downwards. The limiting factor? The human being in the cockpit (all the blood runs into our out of the head - either way is bad). Take the human out of the equation and airplanes are capable of far more radical maneuvers. The only thing that would change that, IMHO, is if someone figures out a way to jam signals. Suppose you are flying half way around the world for a strike. If the airplane is flown remotely, pilots can trade-off, go home and have dinner with the family, etc.

But for land combat (and you can't do everything from the air), we'll need boots on the ground for the foreseeable future.

 

[conranger1]

Machines have been constantly introduced into warfare since the dawn of time, but, as can be seen the foot-soldier still remains, as when ground has been taken in battle it must be held, there are no machines who can think for themselves, or even do 100% recon, the human element will always remain up there at the sharp end.

 

[Fear of the Dark]

In 10 years? No definitelly not.
btw. there is allways the risk that someone hacks your systems.
Just imagine a future where the US only uses drones anymore.
And then someone manages it to shut em all down or in a even worst case scenario uses them against you.

 

[Bob Joe]

machines are more expensive so no

 

[j t]

Not 10 years but maybe one day

 

[Hillary]

We can try all we want to limit the amount of actual soldiers sent out, but NOTHING will ever completely replace eyes on the ground.

 

[FOOD FIGHT - Walrus Army]

The Conservative dream is to be able to wage war without giving any money to peon soldiers. All of the money needs to go to wealthy people in their eyes. That is why we are in wars that require manpower to win, but instead we are reducing the number of soldiers and increasing the number of high tech weapons where the money goes to wealthy people instead of peons. War is welfare for the wealthy.

For what we are paying we could line up men shoulder to shoulder and march across Afghanistan with a rifle and clean the country out. Instead we use supersonic aircraft.

 

[Gaijin]

Always going to need boots on the ground.