Automated war

See also: robot menace (may overlap, but automated war does not require it)

Not to be confused with automated battles, which is gameplay feature rather than part of the fiction.

This is categorized as cultural concept as removal of casualties (humans or other senties and even animals) from the frontline warfrare has long been been hypothesized as the eventual culmination of technological progress and the implications of it have been also examined from multiple angles.