The Desktopization of War

The world is changing with an exponential pace. So are the wars we fight. These wars have become something we fight from afar. The paper written by Scott Fitzsimmons and Karina Sangha explore the ability of the United States Air Force to disguise human targets as non-human forms in order to safeguard drone pilots from potential trauma. What are the boundaries on what we do to gamify and dehumanize these victims? Should this be something that modern day war-time rules oversee? I believe that if the United States and other world powers continue down this path (if they are going down this path) it may lead to highly controversial and ethically precarious foreign policy and war-time decisions. The United States' stance on foreign policy has been under a lot of scrutiny throughout the 21st century, and these diplomatic conundrums of fighting for democracy while risking countless civilian lives hangs in the balance everyday. If the United States becomes so detached from the wars they engage in, what will be stopping the US Military from carrying out even more highly immoral missions in the future? To finish, I believe that the desktopization of war may not be the reality nor the future, but it does cast a dark shadow on what the United States seems to deem ethical and righteous when it comes to fighting wars in countries thousands of miles away.