A lot of simple tactics are overlooked by a society raised in decadent comfort compared to the Romans, or any other agricultural-era empire. Our overwhelming fo

A lot of simple tactics are overlooked by a society raised in decadent comfort compared to the Romans, or any other agricultural-era empire. Our overwhelming force and technology has come at a cost to our creativity. If you look at most battles throughout history, there is a single, simple tactic that almost always assured victory: rolling logs downhill at your enemy. But because we have so much whiz-bang tech doing our fighting for us we've delegated our thinking as well. A marine I know of often complained that the most effective tactic the Iraqi insurgents utilized again and again was to set up a missile or RPG pointed generally in the direction of a military base and fire it off long after they've left the area. Even if the rocket doesn't get anywhere close to do any damage, everybody has to stop what they're doing and go on the defensive, and even when they've located the source of the attack, nobody's there. A stupid rocket that doesn't damage anything can bleed the U.S. Military of millions of dollars at a time.