war is hell

 The thing about drone warfare is that the drones aren't killing other drones they are killing people.  If you don't kill, or at least badly bloody, the other guy, he is not going to give up.  

Kind of the same thing with that computer simulation thing.  Which is kind of like that thing where each army chooses a champion and they fight it out to determine who wins the battle or the war.  The loser is never going to say well good show you guys can have this trench or this island or our country.  We will lay down our arms and you can have your way with us.  

There are certain rules of war, the Hague and Geneva conventions which are good things but I don't how much they are followed.  In our latest wars we were fighting stateless guerillas who didn't have to or care to obey any conventions, and so neither did we when we were dealing with them.  At last we now have a regular war between two real countries, but the Russkies are not obeying any conventions so neither are the Ukes.

I was going to lay out some elaborate theory about warfare here but as I was getting into the details I began to realize that it doesn't make much sense.  Don't you hate it when that happens?

But just as my argument was crumbling even before I got into a whole paragraph about it, something came on the radio about Harry and Megan that madcap couple who boldly thumbed their noses at the stuffy royals, or who are a couple of entitled spoiled brats who'd best have their bums beaten by the royal paddle.  Some kind of Netflix doc is coming up so tongues are wagging.  I saw them talking about it on CNN last night just before I turned in and now it is on NPR, which rilly, rilly, should know better.

Isn't this a matter for the English only?  Why are red-blooded Americans worrying their pretty little heads about it?  Okay, I have to say it, they are spoiled little brats. 

Kind of a scattered post here so I will close, as every good post does, with a reference to a science fiction story I read once.  It is Armageddon and the generals are preparing for the battle of good vs evil against Satan.  This being at a time in the future, the generals build a huge robot army which can fight better than any puny human and true enough they take the day.  The generals smile as the heavenly host comes down to take them to the pearly gates, but those smiles turn upside down when they see that they are taking the robots and leaving the generals behind.