As a vaguely related tangent, I just heard something on the BBC…an IDF artillery commander describing the procedure for firing cluster bomb armed rockets at Lebanon. Although there were human soldiers in the firing loop, their involvement was transfering a coordinate file from a message to a control computer and clicking execute. The coordinates derived from detections of Kyatusha launches. In other words, if this account is accurate, there was no human judgement in the firing loop. Frankly, this is much more alarming than the fact that cluster-bombs were used. Although this shows (what we knew) that mnt is unnecessary to the full automation of warfare, it also shows that we are late in dealing with this issue, which will likely become more widespread as automation technology in general and mnt in particular find uses in the conduct of warfare.