I would add:

Quality not Quantity

and from the Art of War: Always allow your enemies an escape route

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"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is, 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.' But only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.' Hahahahahaha!"

-Vizzini, right before he dies of iocaine poisoning.

"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
John Arbuthnot Fisher

The AI often sins against this one, declaring war without the means to back it up, or attacking with too little force at once.

I seem to have forgotten most other quotes from that ancient war game "Scorched Earth" though, it's been over 15 years since I read them...

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No way!!!!!!!!!!! 3-D Scorched Earth, the best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Depending on the front you're basing that statement on. We won the Western front with quality. We had nukes. No one else did. We won.

the only quality thing we had were b-17s and b-19s and mustangs.


the jeep was cheep, the Sherman was cheep, the light carrier(jeep carrier) was cheep, and the liberty ships were cheep.


not sure where the submarines stand.


the world war 2 battleships were quality and so were the main carriers.

but most of the things we built were cheep and easy to build

including the two nukes we used.

What makes you think that these characteristics do not represent superior quality, in a grand application of technological superiority sense?

The Sherman, for instance. It was specifically tweaked in design to be, yes, reasonably priced. But more importantly, to run further on a tank of fuel, to run faster on on the kinds of roads where it would spend most of its travel time, to run much longer on the same set of tracks, to be field repairable by the skill sets to be expected in U.S. draftees, to carry more ammo than opposition medium tanks, to take less time between main gun rounds than opposition tanks (these last two being the specific reasons why the U.S. did not adopt the Brit Firefly modification). All of these things were specific trade-offs in its design, not accidents. One of the most important limitations placed on the standard U.S. medium tank design was that a full battalion, with spares, had to fit into a specific amount of shipping space (I forget which ship type was used as the standard). It wasn't that we didn't know how to build a heavier, larger-gunned tank, it was that we were choosing a tank design that we could build in as many factories as possible, deliver anywhere in the world, repair anywhere in the world, and sustain anywhere in the world -- that was also 'good enough' in combat.
In action, U.S tank battalions tended to have ~80% of their tanks available. German battlions in 1944 Western European campaign tended to have about 60% of their assigned (not establishment) tanks ready for battle.

Not all war-making technology is gun calibers and armor thickness.

drrider

to put it in another way we built enough stuff in two years to fight not one war but two wars. not only that but we also were suppling the allies with some of it.


of course as i have said. an army isn't very good in the ocean, and a navy isn't very good on land. but we still had to supply both at the same time.

The nukes themselves were not that expensive but the whole program to develop them was costly both in terms of funding and time.
Just look at how many countries nowadays could manufacture any atomic weapon (whether it's Uranium, Plutonium or Hydrogen) and we're talking about more than 60 years later...

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Military Doctrine- Special on # 2.
Superior Tech goes along way towards defeating an inferior foe. I would like to add; toward any foe.A few examples,. Fee free to add some of your own.
In WWII we saved alot of lives with superior air power. We bombed all the litle islands along the way with our better air power. Another direct example would be what we did to what we did to the Taliban goverment of Afghanistan in 2001.
We once again used superior Tech to knock a goverment out of office in weeks! Again air power.
My country backs up what I say. The Skunk Works,we are the only country that has (let's face it) any real Aircraft Carriers and yes we not Janan weild the World's economic weapon., I have said enough, please forgive me. G.G. out!

I must agree with you 100%. If you have put the time and effort into a weapon or weapon's system you should dam well be useing it. Weather to counter a threat or to go on the offencive youeself.