The scariest thing is, autonomous "soldiers" can do what bombers cannot: Go building-to-building and door-to-door.

The cost and risk of urban engagements and "boots on the ground" was usually the final commitment of warfare.

Even before bombers existed for every person killed on a battlefield a ton of people who didn't see a single enemy soldier died because that army had destroyed or used up the region's food supplies or introduced a new disease or diverted a river's water.

Exactly