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But autonomy explicitly decreases the human logistics burden too, by multiplying the effectiveness of each human.

Where in Civil War times you would need to clothe, feed, camp 100 people, now you have that firepower in a single soldier's weapon.

And when you remove the need for even a single human, you also remove their logistics footprint.



> Where in Civil War times you would need to clothe, feed, camp 100 people, now you have that firepower in a single soldier's weapon.

Which doesn't reduce the number of troops you need against a given foe with peer equipment, it just increases the durable equipment and consumables per soldier




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