In an age of computer-guided antitank missiles and radar By spy satellites, it is tempting to see war as nothing more than a technological joust. History Begs to differ.

• 在应用电脑制控的反坦克导弹和雷达监测卫星的时代里，战争很容易被看作为一场技术上的竞争。历史却未敢苟同。