From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 14:41:35 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote,
>
>>### Yes, this is a very cool idea - technology progressing so
>>fast that conflict is reduced to demonstrations of one's
>>technological prowess, after which everybody else gives up.
>
> Unfortunately, this only works if you have a single dictatorial power with
> all the weapons. If you have multiple superpowers of similar strength, the
> high technology doesn't help.
Actually it does help. The really high tech weapons
are not particularly destructive, just amazingly
accurate. They hit and destroy the low tech weapons
and leave the humans mostly alone. We had cases in
Baghdad where tanks and missile batteries were parked
in the middle of civilian neighborhoods, but nobody
wanted to stand near them.
spike
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