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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (191451)7/11/2006 7:40:42 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It would be interesting if massive military expenditures would no longer have a decent ROI in assymetric warfare.

Absolutely. You should look at it in terms of supercomputer development vs. PC CPUs. The later, though dirt cheap, became the building blocks of the former. It is all about using volume components from commercial electronics. So far, very little has happened that makes use of this in the terrorist sphere. If Israel, or any of the tech Asian states found themselves up against the USA, the USA would be in a world of hurt within a year of such an insurgency. The Arab nutcases, lack the technical background, since most of them want to go jihading instead of getting an engineering degree. But there is talent in places, and once the designs and software start floating around the net, all hell will break loose.
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