This sort of out-of-date knowledge of war fighting capabilities is what led to millions of men dying in trenches in WW1. Consider, for instance, that over fift

This sort of out-of-date knowledge of war fighting capabilities is what led to millions of men dying in trenches in WW1. Consider, for instance, that over fifty million artillery rounds were fired during the Battle of the Somme alone. That’s a level of warfare unprecedented at the time - it required an industrial economy just to produce that much ordnance, not to mention a railways to move them to the front. No one prior to ww1 would have conceived of warfare on that scale. Now, just imagine what kind of warfare we’re capable of today, that we haven’t even thought of yet?