Crewed warships as cruisers and uncrewed escorts

How will combat roles evolve as fleets rely on fewer, more capable warships?

Uncrewed assets are expected to take sloop and destroyer-escort roles, while crewed ships increasingly perform large-destroyer and cruiser duties.

Uncrewed assets are expected to take roles comparable to the sloops and destroyer escorts of earlier fleets. Crewed ships would increasingly perform large-destroyer and cruiser duties. A cruiser still needs to fight with its own weapons as part of a task group. Complete dependence on accompanying assets would lose that capability. A related criticism is that policy uses of 'wars of choice' and 'the end of history' detach slogans from their authors' arguments.