Comment Not seeing a human face on a battlefield (Score 1) 665
I know it's already been mentioned how having an all-robot military would affect the policy makers directing the military, but what about the other parties involved in war?
If you were part of a nation's Coast Guard and saw numerous amphibious robots take a beach, would you feel encouraged to attack the robots knowing that there's no human cost to reducing robots to a scrap heap?
And as the remote pilot of an invading robot force, can you expect to gain sympathy from the civilians of the country you're invading?