I’ve maintained since I was a young man that low tech has a better chance of winning a battle and a war.
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A country that builds billion dollar airplane and multi billion dollar submarines and surface fleet vessels can only afford to build a few of them. They then have to hope that they don’t break and that the other side does not come up with an answer to these expensive toys.
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On the other hand a country that can build thousands upon thousands of low tech airplanes or hundreds of diesel boat submarines or a fleet of a 100,000 surface war vessels on the cheap can absorb the loss much better than the country mounting a high tech war. The same can be said for land based war machines. Tanks by the millions at a low cost. Or even jeeps with something like the TOW missile.
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It has been said many time: Quantity has a quality all its own.
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