On the physical level, it is a test of firepower, weapons technology, troop strength, and logistics.
The American economy far exceeds China's in size and relative prosperity, and American military firepower and technology are unmatched.
"They're the best protection we could have". More Firepower And Technology More tangible measures have also been adopted at all three airports.
But it appeared possible -- despite concerted allied efforts today to prevent this -- that Saddam Hussein was collapsing his most powerful defenses into the capital, Baghdad, where superior American firepower and technology will almost certainly be less decisive.
By evening, as many as 50 insurgents had been killed, Iraqi officials said, while 21 others, including several foreign fighters, were captured, but only after the use of massive U.S. firepower and technology.
After the military's failure in Vietnam, it tried to turn war into a matter of firepower and technology — which is why, when the Sunni insurgency began to take off in the summer of 2003, American forces had no idea how to react and made matters far worse.
When communist forces had difficulty coping with American weapons and tactics as the United States poured combat forces into South Vietnam in 1965 and 1966, communist defeats were attributed to internal ideological weaknesses and mistakes, not to U.S. superiority in firepower and technology.
To be thought of as deity by primitive people, one needs only to appear as different, have superior firepower and technology.
Immense firepower and improved technology have pushed decision-making with national consequences down to individual enlisted men.
When the firepower of modern technology -high-speed electronicsensorsrs, sensors, fiber optics and so forth - is applied to anything as complex as steel and steelmaking, one instantly has plenty of room for change.
