On 6/16/2015 8:47 PM, Greg Chalik wrote:

​ On a final note, mercenaries generally fight with what they have rather than what they want to have. Their 'saving grace' is the necessity of a want, necessity being the mother of invention. Military history proves that forces denied 'advanced technology' of their opponents are more likely to be victorious due to greater need to innovate. This perhaps presents a paradox for the Traveller universe that a force with more advanced technology is more likely to be defeated​

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I think you're taking some of this in a vacuum and overlooking the lack of political will or political mismanagement, social resistance, and just plain war fatigue as important factors.  This isn't just American policy I'm discussing, but pretty much any government's where a lower tech force has either held the line or prevailed (i.e. they were the ones who held the battlefield when the conflict was over).

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