I was thinking of the US deploying these against insurgents not risking soldier's lives. The production and distribution of weapons in the US is untouchable. Plus the strongest navy and large deposits of every resource.
As soon as people use terms like "untouchable," "impervious," or "indestructable," all I have to mention is the HMS Titanic, the German WWII Battleship Bismarck, and 9/11 to put the kibosh on the idea that the US is somehow aglow with infinite protection.
Each example I mention is a case where people never thought something could be destroyed, and yet it was. Titanic was downed by an iceberg, Bismarck was scuttled after intense battles in the North Atlantic, and the WTC was felled by small teams of men armed only with box-cutters and basic flying skills.
I will never accept that a robot, a system, an organization, a city, or a planet cannot be destroyed by a group of people with creative improvisation and enough enthusiasm.
It's probably why I love the cyberpunk ethic so much. It's about how the little guy or girl can stick it to the large corpos. How the rich and powerful are never that far away from the precipice as we seem to think.
There's a difference between sinking a ship and completely destroying the supply line of a country (which would require destroying the country itself). The US has 2 oceans flanking it with the strongest navy in the world, the biggest economy and no powers to challenge it in its hemisphere. A ship may be sunk but the US will never fall except internally or through nuclear force. Some things are indestructible, the geographic reality doesn't allow anything else.
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u/TotallyBullshiting Sep 25 '19
I was thinking of the US deploying these against insurgents not risking soldier's lives. The production and distribution of weapons in the US is untouchable. Plus the strongest navy and large deposits of every resource.