Does the increasing use of technology in warfare destigmatize war as something we should try and avoid?

The answer is 'YES'. But that's not the real problem: less than 19 percent of our Congressional members have military experience! In their ignorance, they will get us killed because they don't have a clue! As for the 'carnage of war', can you imagine if like 45 years ago when Walter was on the TV every night reporting triple digit casualty figures followed by his trademark phrase "...And that's the way it is," followed by the date?

Great Query. As a Geek, Techie, Spook, I never got "My Hands Dirty" rarely saw the Human Affect of what I was doing. As the battlefield becomes more clinical, sterile we need to always be asking are we doing the right thing and in the right method.

I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: "A Taste of Armageddon".

tl;dr of the episode suggests that advances in technology can be a double-edged sword when it comes to war: either they make it even more catastrophic (ala WW1) or they so remove people from it that those people no longer have a reason to avoid war.

I do think that, as we get more technical, the impact on us as a body will be greatly diminished, to the point that we'll be ever more ready to attack when we should look at other options first.