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Awesome comment, though I feel that "use technology to your advantage" is doing a HUGE amount of work, and is the entire subject of the linked article. > Contr

Awesome comment, though I feel that "use technology to your advantage" is doing a HUGE amount of work, and is the entire subject of the linked article. > Control the high ground. Use technology to your advantage. Deny the enemy use of territory and resources. Destroy the will of the enemy to fight. Genuine question: how useful is a principle like "deny the enemy the use of territory and resources"? Isn't the devil very much in the details of how one actually goes about this? Pursuing this same goal in two different technological eras will be drastically different in all kinds of ways, and that's the point of the article.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback. > "use technology to your advantage" is doing a HUGE amount of work, and is the entire subject of the linked article. My biggest issue with the linked article was it attempting to present a technology as causing a quantum change in military matters. However, militaries have a very long history of adopting new technology into and modifying existing frameworks. >Genuine question: how useful is a principle like "deny the enemy the use of territory and resources"? I think this is a very important principle. I feel one of the places where this was forgotten was Vietnam. There was a ton of bombing, and McNamarra, etc made a big deal about the body counts. Vietnam was almost a trial run for "let's win a war just through massive high tech". It turned out to be disaster. Although lots of people were killed and lots of areas deforested, the North Vietnamese were still able to control a lot of territory as use that as the base for the NVA to launch the Tet offensive which massively changed the appetite for continuing the war. Again a historical perspective might have been helpful. A country that was able to successfully resist Kublai Khan and the Mongol army is going to be pretty hard to successfully invade.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago

Thanks for your feedback. > "use technology to your advantage" is doing a HUGE amount of work, and is the entire subject of the linked article. My biggest issue with the linked article was it attempting to present a technology as causing a quantum change in military matters. However, militaries have a very long history of adopting new technology into and modifying existing frameworks. >Genuine question: how useful is a principle like "deny the enemy the use of territory and resources"? I think this is a very important principle. I feel one of the places where this was forgotten was Vietnam. There was a ton of bombing, and McNamarra, etc made a big deal about the body counts. Vietnam was almost a trial run for "let's win a war just through massive high tech". It turned out to be disaster. Although lots of people were killed and lots of areas deforested, the North Vietnamese were still able to control a lot of territory as use that as the base for the NVA to launch the Tet offensive which massively changed the appetite for continuing the war. Again a historical perspective might have been helpful. A country that was able to successfully resist Kublai Khan and the Mongol army is going to be pretty hard to successfully invade.