"Thousands of Robots"
By If Hillary comes out with a proposal for a Department of Anti-Robot Affairs, I’ll switch my support.
More seriously, the overall effect of “robot surges” seems to be to shift the cost of war from the blood side of the ledger to the treasure side. This doesn’t necessarily make wars a better idea; paying from the treasure side means higher taxes, fewer hospitals, etc., but it does have an impact on the political interpretation of a war, since the deaths of soldiers are far more salient than the destruction of robots.