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Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Asymmetric Warfare:
They will never produce a "cheap" weapon, for it is institutionally impossible for the American MIC to stop grifting. Just how many active fronts can the empire afford?
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I have a book called "Low Intensity Warfare" and the whole thing can be summed up as "There's no way to win an asymmetric conflict as the imperial power unless you genocide the entire population".
Cheap compact off-the-shelf computers and improvements in battery technology has only made guerrilla wars much harder for empires. It's not that long ago that if you wanted to do recon of superior enemy forces, you needed to put people in eyeshot of them, or maybe if you were really fancy you could jury-rig something stationary with a camcorder. Nowadays you do a flyby with your Mavic Pro knock-off from a reasonably safe distance. And you can do it over terrain that's normally impossible for regular people to cross, like wide gorges and raging rivers and minefields. Having the enemy waste munitions in shooting the drone down (if they even spot it) is only a bonus, because every round fired at a disposable drone is a round not being fired at your own fighters.
And going higher up gives you a better vantage while simultaneously being harder to see and hear
"Genocide the entire population, you say?" 
