Only thing I take slight issue with is the guy saying, "The future battlespace is incredible autonomous robots like ours shooting each other. I don’t think there's much room for people with guns.”
Well maybe, maybe not. History has examples of where it was said this or that is the future of warfare only for that not quite to be the case. So if I was him, I'd have said, "The future battlespace is likely to be..." I mean to take and hold ground and perform the logistics and so forth will likely require humans.
Every commander is hyper focused on protection as a war fighting function right now.
It’s a very severe departure with how sort of callous we became to that function during persistent coin. We really liked this system and others because it addressed the low end of the spectrum on deploying elements out amongst the rear areas that were vulnerable enough to need something, but not important enough to soak up a low density high value system.
Stuff like this was literally a semi decent gaming laptop, some power generations, a cool optic that costs a few thousand dollars… This system isnt winning wars like you said, but it’s a multi thousand dollar (budget dust) investment providing protection to stuff you have dispersed that will be necessary to win the war with (ammo cache, heavy equipment parks, sleeping areas, the FARP, etc). The CP will be fine, nobody is leaving that outside an umbrella, it’s all that other stuff I worry about.
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