Access to a more precise weapon doesn't change the fundamental questions of a strike: is the target correct, are they legitimate, are they an imminent threat? It mainly toggles down the deaths in a strike relative to other weapons but more than if never fired. athertonkd.substack.com/p/twilight-g...
On directing violence through the unknown knowns and fogs of forever war.
Here the history of precision weapons is instructive & it parallels the history of cluster munitions. Both were Cold War developments aimed at winning a massive land battle in Europe. US opted for precision because that made bombs better with minimal added weight publicintegrity.org/national-sec...
Cold War choices and artillery supplies explain why Russia's cluster bombs, not laser-guided weapons, are crashing into Ukrainian homes.