Re: Tech Changes Battlefield

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 10:56:01 MDT

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    --- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
    > If overwhelming military technology determined
    > outcomes the US
    > would still be a colonial territory.

    Guerilla warfare was, to the British, a new
    "technology". Concepts like "cover" were mostly
    foreign to their musketeers - at least, as I read it.

    > This does not all follow. Or did the Soviets not
    > put something
    > in orbit first and field and extraordinary army of
    > excellent
    > scientiests and engineers in the cold war? Did they
    > or did they
    > not acheive sufficient military technology to
    > destroy the world
    > just as we did?

    But you'll note they were nice to their scientists as
    well. Very nice. Communism was an inefficient
    economic model, and there it eventually fell flat, but
    post-WWII Soviet Russia was a far cry better than the
    regimes we have put down over the past decade.

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