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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