>>13650199Let me explain this more slowly then. UAVs have already replaced most air support roles so you are basically talking about boots on the ground army divisions (let's ignore navy for now; America has better CAGs, but I'm not to sure how well it will do against a spam of UAV submarines even with it's great detection capabilities).
So you basically think that you still need boots on the ground? Let's break it down, armoured divisions don't matter unless you have air superiority period. So aerial drones are more important than tanks. Similarly for most mechanized divisions although that becomes more complicated, but in short AA and drone counter measures are orders more expensive than drones themselves. Next on infantry; manpower gunlines haven't been relevant since the Blitzkrieg. And now you have cheap loitering ammunition and drone swarms that can autonomously target heat signatures this will become even less relevant. People don't have the morale of drones, they will run in the face of 10s of thousands of tiny missiles hanging out on the sky ready to kill them. If they don't then you just take them out cheaply (see Azerbaijan raping the Armenians in their most recent war). And more to the point, it would be an idiotic doctrine, especially for manpower poor Western countries, to waste precious lives that could've been more valuable as drone pilots. So basically here electronic warefare will determine the
victor.As further proof you can already see how the IDF is handling urban warfare (they don't need infantry to occupy cities anymore). In the future no infantry will be needed at all, just good detection units networked to drones and autonomous loitering ammunition.
That leaves SF which is basically the only flesh and blood unit predicted to still be relevant a decade from now. Yet it costs millions of dollars to produce 1 navy seal which can be taken at by 1 loitering round worth a less than 100 bucks. I don't need to elaborate on who wins here.
