Uncrewed battles in undeclared conflicts

Will uncrewed systems fight battles in undeclared wars that governments and the press barely acknowledge?

Such clashes are expected, with secret special-forces operations and violence short of gunfire on disputed borders providing the comparisons.

Covert special-forces operations provide the comparison for future uncrewed clashes that governments do not publicly acknowledge. Some firefights receive little press coverage and may leave only sparse records for historians to encounter sixty or seventy years later. Similarly unreported engagements involving uncrewed systems are expected. India-China border confrontations supply a second analogy, involving violence with sticks and stones while avoiding gunfire. These examples explain the prediction without identifying a particular uncrewed battle.