>>Recent history doesn't seem to confirm this...in fact it becomes rather obvious that one needs a lot of troops to make any difference...
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>What's your example. If were taking pure military victory or military defense high tech wins. If you're taking about occupation (or nation building) that certainly takes a lot of bodies, or effectively convincing the conquered nation that you are the good guys.

Vietnam, Afhanistan (US & USSR), Iraq
BTW remember the Zulu wars....

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>Sure Chinese made, but it is an HP, so all of the R&D is done in the US. The US innovates, asia copies and builds. I think Japan would be the only nation that is doing true orginal innovation (vs copying and tweaking).

Well mine is an Acer, built & dev. in Taiwan....
Western arrogance will be our downfall...