oh good, by dint of presidential fiat my country's military is being gutted today

[Nowhere Man 1966]

Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

All that money spent on the military didn't stop a few fanatics with box-cutters from crashing planes into buildings. Or a nutcase getting into the British subway and killing a few people there. More money will not solve the worlds problems.

I came out of hiding myself here. Yeah, it seems like with all the high tech expensive toys we have, it can still come down to being defeated or at least given a hard time by someone who would use a much lower tech to fight back or some other way. It is like the old Kurt Vonnegut story, "Manned Missiles" (1958) where the technology has gotten so good on both sides, most battles were ended in a stalemate so they decide to go back to using piloted aircraft and kamakaze missiles to outwit the high tech computer controlled missiles and planes. I saw on the website, www.tvtropes.org, where there are plenty of examples of "rock beats laser."

Chuck