/lit/ - Literature

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>There is not even a code of honor or gentlemanliness
The wide variety of conventions on warfare are vastly more honorable and thorough than any past constructs of chivalry or other. War is far more gentlemanly now than it has ever been. The level of protection given to individuals hors de combat, civilians and even combatants themselves has never been matched in history.
>both soon to be replaced by a superior machine
A superior machine AND a human will always be superior to a machine on its own. Technology and other systems will always complement the soldier, but not replace him. Only when the presence of infantry is a genuine detriment, will there be reason and purpose to be rid of humans in combat. Until that occurs, combined arms will chug on forward.