RT: People win wars, not machines

US soldiers prepare an RQ-11 Raven miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at Alaugal valley in Nishagam, in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province (AFP Photo / Liu Jin)

“Americans tend to forget that people, not machines, win wars” permalinke-mail story to a friendprint version Published 11 December, 2009, 03:23 The Pentagon is using some of its most sophisticated weaponry in Afghanistan, but defense industry expert Winslow Wheeler says Americans have a technological ignorance when it comes to machines’ capabilities.

The war in Afghanistan has become a testing ground for innovations, says Wheeler, a director of the Center for Defense Information’s Straus Military Reform Project. Wars, he noted, are typically used as a laboratory for figuring out what works and what doesn’t.

“But machines don’t win wars – people win them,” Wheeler added. “They use their minds and their moral strength to do that, and Americans tend to forget about that.”

Rightardia comment:  The US may be making the same mistake the Nazis made in World War 2. The Germans had some of the best tanks until the Russians introduced the T-34. They also had jet aircraft, a cruise missile, a ballistic missile and and an anti-tank RPG. The Allies had none of these weapons systems, yet they won the war. 


The Russians out-manned and out produced the Nazis. The US also out produced the Germans and provided weapons, aircraft and supplies to the UK and the Russians. Based upon US experiences in Iraq and Vietnam, it is also essential that the US only fight 'just wars.'

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