Hmmm.... so kill them all and let 觀音 sort them out?
That's kinda how traditional artillery works no?
But we can already do much better with drones
- Unless its an urban area and the enemy is hiding among civilians there won't be any non-combatants in the box
- You can also train AI to tell civilian vehicles from military ones, if you care to do so.
- If they do hide in civilan areas humans won't be able to tell them apart either.
- The box can be a polygon and can be drawn with recon drone after segregating combatants from non-combatants, and the polygon shape can be updated remotely.
Just think of it as a more precise and efficient artillery barrage with minimal collateral damage.