The good news would be that fewer live pilots would be at risk.

The bad news?

1. The use of drone attacks might go up since no direct US casualties at risk - only ground forces from friendly fire, ground forces from more violence against them in reaction to drone attacks.

2. Civilian and on-combatants casualties would go up - which might increase violence against the US.

3. There will be a drone factory of sub-contractor in the district of every congressmember who serves on a committee that give budget to drone programs. Thus welfare for defense contractors would likely increase and funds that might go for more productive things and peace might well get lost in the shuffle.

Remember the Star Trek episode where a society conducted all of its war via computers? If the computer said you lost or had casualties, people then had to report for death or to be a wounded casualty.

Without a draft of people into the military, the care for waging war seems to have gone down, sin