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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 iss
by 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.