I've said it before, I'll say it again;
War has become so pussy-coded, this is just machine-cloaked cowardice, these pilots won't even have the balls to look the men in the eyes that they're burning.
They hop onto the Xbox 360 controllers and just treat it all like a sick game.
The insane landscape of modern drone warfare. Including "dragon drones" dropping molten iron (thermite) onto structures and trenches.