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Him_over_there
Him_over_there:
This chart is old. It only shows events as they stood at the end of Obama's second term in office.

Obama left the Whitehouse having authorised ten times more drone strikes than G.W Bush - and having been at war for longer than any President in US history.
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Metaverseguy
Metaverseguy: Who cares they are the enemy they should be atomic bombs
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chowomanishere
chowomanishere in reply to Him_over_there: Obama wasn't perfect but I'd take him in a second over Trump ...
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chowomanishere
chowomanishere: Him are you the mad guy?????
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EYEOFTHEDESERT
EYEOFTHEDESERT: OMG look at all those bombs
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TJ_TANG
TJ_TANG: Drone strikes replaced cruise missiles.
Cruise missiles replaced carpet bombing.

This trend is easily surmised as so.

Away from large scale warfare with it's mass indescriminate killing with much loss of innocent life, collateral damage, etcetera.  Absolutely horrifying in scale. For example see carpet bombing below.

Towards tactical remote piloted warfare.  Squadrons of drones and swarms of support drones. Teams of remote pilots control it all .  Targets are identified before being engaged.  This is warfare conducted with a SWAT team attitude and this is absolutely horrifying on another level.  For example see remote controlled machine gun.

Carpet Bombing.
From 1964 to 1973, as part of the Secret War operation conducted during the Vietnam War, the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions. This is equivalent to a planeload of bombs being unloaded every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years – nearly seven bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos at that time.

Remote Controlled Machine Gun
The U.S. Military and intelligence community have been undertaking targeted killings for more than a decade, but the use of AI and an unmanned ground weapon system is different. In particular, AI could be used not only to ensure the target is killed, but to strike with such accuracy that other nearby civilians and innocent bystanders are spared.
Israeli agents used only 15 machine gun bullets to kill the scientist in a moving vehicle, without harming those around him. The Fakhrizadeh killing shows that we are now firmly in the age of remote-controlled warfare, and that time and distance place few restrictions on killing. The restrictions, if any, will have to be put in place by people.

My two cents.
Warfare is violence, the danger I see here is the public becoming more desensitized to endless warfare. The public only tends to react if troops are coming back en'masse, and the "Nintendo Pilots", as the late philosopher George Carlin tagged them back in 1991', are getting further from the frontlines all the time eventually being a military will carry all the risk of an office job.

If a highly lethal and accurate system is put in place with the "good notion" of a "cleaner" war.  Meaning less innocent bystander casualties, less collateral damage, less blowback; taken alone seem worthy of attention marketed as "Warfare Lite: only 2% of the death vs. Regular War." Suppose, in such a system the targeting identification "filter" is shut off, or never installed in the first place, it's now an indescriminate killer.

Like this one!
https://www.wired.com/2008/12/israeli-auto-ki/
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