I work in the industry bringing in the cool cyber toys. Let me set things straight. These toys are use ON the battle field by people on or VERY near the battle. And in the future those that can’t fight with this stuff will die, without ever seeing what killed them.
In the age of muskets you are recommending we stick with only tried and true spears.
In the age of the maxim gun you are recommending we don’t distract soldiers with such complication and we stick with the Brown Bess musket.
I also work in the industry & I think cyber is being emphasized at the expense of real weapons!
I am constantly being told by management, ‘put a cyber spin on it so we can get the moneys!
I am not a Luddite, but what I see is cyber being spun up as the “ultimate weapon”. No need for other weapons, we got “cyber”!
Not at all.
Anything that acts as a force multiplier is good stuff.
Use them while you got them.
But when machines and tech aids fail, break, act up, or get destroyed (and they do) it all comes down to the guys on the ground slogging through the mud and blood.
So just as it doesn't make sense to go to battle without the latest technical tools, it doesn't make sense to eliminate their back up, which is still the grunt on the ground.
Well, if the kind of cyber we’re talking is intel and attack drones, breaching robots and the like, that’s a very different matter. That would suggest they are upgrading the Assault Man into a Combat Engineer role. That seems to be what I’m reading.