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>Human life is more valuable than hyper advanced mechanical wonders
You got that completely wrong. Humans are pretty worthless and weak and targeting them is the lowest form of warfare after besieging a city. There are way too many of them around and they don't actually amount to much of anything on their own.
It's the machines that are the force multipliers that make humans deadly. Take away the machines and all the enemy can do is pew-pew at you, at which point even a Humvee can just plow over them.
The Body Politic of the nations has been a Cyborg at least since WW1 and you can conquer it by attacking or taking control of the machine parts.