Bird Dogs & Drones, Terminators & Swarms: The Race Towards Robotic Warfare:
"More robots, fewer people. That’s where the US military is headed in the future.
But what kind of robots?
Army Gen. Robert Cone, four-star commander of the powerful Training and Doctrine
Command (aka TRADOC), said that the service is studying how robots could help
replace 25 percent of the soldiers in each of its 4,000-strong combat brigades.
That’s because the current budget crunch is pushing the military to replace
expensive human beings – and the expensive hardware required to keep them alive
— with cheaper and expendable robots. The Army is under particular pressure
because it has the most people, spending almost half its budget on pay and
benefits, and those people take the heaviest casualties."
See:
http://breakingdefense.com/2014/01/b...botic-warfare/