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• One of the most important things to happen to the US Military in over a decade just happened: SOUTHCOM (The US’ Southern Command responsible for Central America, South America, and...
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One of the most important things to happen to the US Military in over a decade just happened: SOUTHCOM (The US’ Southern Command responsible for Central America, South America, and the Caribbean) has started an autonomous warfare command. The somewhat awkwardly named SAWC is an important step for the US to develop a scalable, relatively inexpensive autonomous robotic force on land, sea, and air.
As we know, the US is stuck, with too little in the way of ordinance, too expensive craft, and a declining advantage. There is simply no way the US can win a protracted war with a near-peer. It is simply too expensive for the US to wage war now. A short engagement with Iran cost the US a third of its Tomahawks and depleted around half of all other precision long-range munitions. It also lost aroun