> Soldiers naturally face immense PTSD from harming human beings. There is only one natural end game of this technological progression uninterrupted; soldiers will be coddled by tech to dehumanize the enemy.

I disagree

1. We don't need tech to dehumanize people, you can say that it brings down the barrier of cost to do it to mass but governments can already do this without this tech

2. Assuming tech does make the dehumanizing part easy, this isnt the only "natural" end game. I can easily see how this can help higher ups make more effective decisions and reduce civilian causalities

I recently read Stand on Zanzibar (John Bruner, 1968) which trained the military to kill through “EPTifcation”(education for particular tasks). It’s set in 2010 and some (many?) of the predictions are spot on- E-cigs, relations with China, shiggy circuit (dating/hookup apps), widening social divides, scanalyzer (Twitter/Social “media”), militarized police force, corporations with near nation-state power, and of course an AI named Shalmaneser.

>Soldiers naturally face immense PTSD from harming human beings. Yes of course. That's why the most important part of military training is to break you down and turn you into a mindless killer who obeys orders. Doesn't always work but that's the goal.