<concerted effort of detection, location(GPS) , sensing, jamming, laser, radar, armoured airplanes, perhaps using E-bombs, finally all coming together in Cen Com on display screens.>
In the Information Age, those with the ability to use the technology have a qualitative advantage, that overwhelms any quantitative disadvantage.
I don't know enough about the history of military technology to know for sure, but it seems to me there is more military disparity today, between nations, based on technology, than existed anytime in the 20th Century.
I remember reading a history of the Inca conquest once. The Spanish regularly defeated armies 100 times their size, because they had:
1. horses. The Inca armies were infantry, so the Spanish always got to the battles "firstest with the mostest".
2. Toledo steel. Their swords could be bent in a half circle without breaking.
3. chain mail. The Inca weapons couldn't pierce them. Spaniards could be hit repeatedly, and survive, as long as they stayed mounted.
The Incas never figured out the need to target the horses, or using massed archers (which, in Europe, was the way to defeat armored cavalry). |
