Richard, technology is just tool use. However, tool use is necessitated by the 'art' of the tool user, the creative capacity. This includes inventing new tools, or using existing tools in new ways.
Mercenaries were warfare artists.
Greg
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:High-tech is not a solution for every problem.I sincerely doubt that correct application of appropriate higher-tech gear to any given problem will fail to solve it. For example, a mobile desert force equipped with fuel cells and evaporation stills will - everything else being equal - experience FAR fewer problems than one tied down to a network of fuel and water dumps.That is not to say that lower-tech-level solutions can't work. *A* particular balance of lower TL and other factors (level of skill, situational intelligence, individual initiative, etc) might well prevail against *A* particular opposing balance of higher TL and such other factors. But in a case where all "other factors" are equal (or even roughly close) between opposing sides, the side with the more capable technology WILL win.Mercenaries were never just "guns for hire".Well, mercenaries *used* to be blades for hire . . .But they were always *supposed* to be troops for hire.Upon becoming something else (such as the defacto rulers, as in the case of the Praetorian Guard "electing" Roman emperors), then they ceased to be *mercenaries.*--Richard Aiken
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