pound of the equipment and fuel became of even higher 
importance than on the sea.”

     It is this trend toward more and more power with less and 
less hardware that is characteristic of the electric age of 
information. Fuller has estimated that in the first half century 
of the airplane the nations of the world have invested two and 
a half trillion dollars by subsidy of the airplane as a weapon. He 
added that this amounts to sixty-two times the value of all the 
gold in the world. His approach to these problems is more 
technological than the approach of historians, who have often 
tended to find that war produces nothing new in the way of 
invention.

      “This man will teach us how to beat him,” Peter the Great 
is said to have remarked after his army had been beaten by