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My hypothesis being, goverments only limit their oppressiveness when forced by the necessity to maintain the loyalty of their citizens. Or did you think it was coincidence that Enlightenment thinking flourished right with the era in which military and industrial force was a numbers game...

Genuine question, why? Any given government's oppressiveness is dependent on what it can get away with. American oligarchs with an invulnerable defense against revolt would be functionally identical to Chinese ones.

The problem with this logic being, drones aren't completely capable of replacing footsoldiers yet. The whole "nobody's won a war entirely with airpower" argument all over again. The possibility of technology advancing to allow the creation of fully autonomous armies capable of occupying...