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All non-drone militaries are obsolete

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All warfare is drone warfare now.

All non-drone militaries are obsolete All warfare is drone warfare now. Noah Smith and Latent.Space May 19, 2026 802 154 98 Share Drone warfare has been a fascination of mine for a very long time. When I read Daphne du Maurier’s “ The Birds ” as a kid, I imagined what would happen if the attacking swarms were mechanical birds, controlled with AI. When I read about Japanese kamikazes in WW2, I reasoned that someday we’d have drones do the same. In 2013, I wrote a post about the advent of drone warfare that’s still probably the most prophetic thing I’ve ever written. It simply made sense that if

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