Uncrewed weapons can lower the political threshold for force

Could uncrewed weapons make it too easy for governments to resort to war?

Yes, the lower human and political cost may reduce restraint, even though software failure, jamming, and spoofing create serious risks.

Societies may become less sensitive to war when the immediate loss is a machine rather than a human crew. Cost and political incentives will nevertheless continue driving uncrewed systems into service. Bad code, jamming, and spoofing create their own operational dangers. Procurement economics, escalation ethics, and electronic warfare therefore meet in the same autonomous-weapons problem.