I think there are two possible scenarios A) Where courage is less of factor as technology improves. It takes far less courage to eye ball someone from a few kilometers away and press a button. A recent example would be the gulf war where "shock and awe" was put to use. There were examples of this in the colonial era as well, when colonial army used machine guns to move down their opponents in warfare esp in Africa.
B) Where the techological advantages of the adversory buys him/her very little advantage. The examples of this would be many of the urban conflict situation. I guess here courage does matter. Anish Mohammed www.healthcare-it-security.com The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ashok _ Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] No Sleep Till Hammersmith >There is a similar example of human courage against a much superior force. >During the ethiopian - eritrean conflict of the early 90s the eritreans ( numerically a much inferior force, and without an airforce) were able to defeat >a better armed and equipped ethiopian army. >The ethiopians levelled large parts of eritrea with a heavy aerial bombardment - so the eritreans went underground - and the town of Nakfa (the currency >of eritrea was subsequently named after the place....) - there are extensive tunnel complexes with hospitals, schooles and churces underground in this >town which became the frontline... >(Of course, bravado is always followed by stupidity, as you know both countries have ....metaphorically speaking....to varying degrees poured petrol over >themselves and lit a >match....)
