Some new weapons of warfare are just new ways of using old ones

... to replicate in a manned vehicle. What advantages and disadvantages do you see in the increasing use of these new weapons of warfare? Of the advantages, the most important is probably precision – we see now less collateral damage than we used to. For ... ... and up-front, then politicians may be more likely to use the weapon of war. Furthermore, I am not sure that NATO forces using UAVs against the Taliban and others are necessarily winning the political war. Tactically, they may be successful in “taking ...