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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] I referred to land and air leviathans to show that our thinking is often limited by our experience. Dreadnoughts and armoured cruisers were the most powerful weapons at the turn of the century. Visionaries of that time believed that warfare on land and in the air would similary involve gigantic armoured vehicles mounting many small guns. They were wrong, of course. There were technical limitations, as Matrix mentions, and the importance of small-engined tanks and aircraft were not forseen. In the same way our thinking about future combat is constrained by our past experience. We transfer our favorite paradigm for combat, dogfights between jets flying from aircraft carriers, to space and end up with Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. I'm not saying that any other paradigm we come up with is not similarly biased, but accurately applying what we do know is likely to give more realistic results. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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