How Technology Made the U.S. Military Its Own Worst Enemy
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Washington’s penchant for technological solutions to military problems helps explain why the U.S. has such a lousy track record in fighting wars since Vietnam.
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Nothing has changed the face of modern war so much as technological innovation, military and otherwise. Martin Van Creveld, a brilliant Israeli historian, tells us that “technology affects warfare like waves of a stone thrown into a pond.
