computerization is the fundamental power of warfare. Pilots pull triggers on missles to shoot down targets they rarely see up close and personal.
All ballistic missles, land and sub based. Space based intelligence. Laser target painted by ground troops killed by missles from afar. Etc.

So joy stick warfare is the day and age we live in. This new warfare is in it's infancy.

It is an interesting topic worthy of a thread all it's own.

The politics of the threads question...waterboarding is not lethal, and has no collatoral damage, but the Bush administration was hammerd by the Dems and the media for it's use....known or otherwise.

Remote killer planes are nothing but lethal and creates lethal collatoral damage...by descritption one would consider the latter to be worse. But not as viewed or ignored or hidden by Obama and the media.

Politics......nothing but politics.

btk