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Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story, "Hide and Seek," in 1949 that detailed a military-industrial complex so intent on building futuristic, high-tech weapons that did wonderful things, but the fundamental designs of which forgot the basics of war, which is -- you won't like this, liberals -- "kill the enemy."
They became so engrossed in making the technology work, the failures to do so set them back, the lost territory and advantage, and found themselves defeated by an inferior force.
In the past few years, we've developed unmanned fighters, suits of high-tech armor that can make a soldier "disappear," and a variety of technogizmos that do this or that, all of which are yet to be deployed but, in the long run, are expected to do little to improve our fighting capabilities.
Hmm.
They became so engrossed in making the technology work, the failures to do so set them back, the lost territory and advantage, and found themselves defeated by an inferior force.
In the past few years, we've developed unmanned fighters, suits of high-tech armor that can make a soldier "disappear," and a variety of technogizmos that do this or that, all of which are yet to be deployed but, in the long run, are expected to do little to improve our fighting capabilities.
Hmm.
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