Wired for war

A podcast which discusses the use of telerobots in warfare makes a good point in that in a society where pressing young people into military service is considered politically unacceptable the inevitable outcome of that, if the same level of violence is to be sustainable, is greater use of mercenary fighters (hired guns) or to engineer humans out of the loop as far as possible by making greater use of robotics. Also mentioned is that inevitably non-state organizations will before long begin using the same telerobot weapons, which are much cheaper to manufacture than conventional military hardware such as warships and tanks.