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You're perfectly right, of course, but I'd be wary of projecting the assholery of the elites onto the bulk of the people actually fighting that war, and particularly on the peasants that bore the cost of plundering armies taking their supplies and occasionally daughters or wives. Either way, the topic of defending againt malware or AI is closer to the type of small-scale raiding warfare that passes beneath the notice of the recording elite (or predated record-keeping entirely). Accordingly, these will not have made it into the records, but they're probably a better analogy.