Up until then, war has been kind of a game. Gentlemen gathering the peasants to poke each other with sharp and/or pointy sticks until the food ran out. Then they’d swap some land, maybe a political marriage or two, then go home to tell stories of how courageous they were.
They weren’t ready for the horrors that technology would bring them.
…And in WW2 no one was ready for what airplanes could do, and in Vietnam the Americans couldn’t wrap their minds around what a dedicated guerilla army could accomplish.
Up until then, war has been kind of a game. Gentlemen gathering the peasants to poke each other with sharp and/or pointy sticks until the food ran out. Then they’d swap some land, maybe a political marriage or two, then go home to tell stories of how courageous they were.
They weren’t ready for the horrors that technology would bring them.
…And in WW2 no one was ready for what airplanes could do, and in Vietnam the Americans couldn’t wrap their minds around what a dedicated guerilla army could accomplish.