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Originally Posted by Seneca Pilot
We always fight the last war.
Applies to more than military matters.
Well the good news about coronaviruses is that they are not consciously evolving to be better than the last one... so a better response should produce better results.
In military matters, the enemy will most definitely and deliberately evolve beyond the last war.
The PRC's current RMA, for example, was a direct result of their observations of gulf-war-I. A very large, very experienced national military force using the exactly the same soviet hardware and doctrine which PRC subscribed to was utterly crushed by US (and some allied) forces in a matter of hours. PRC expected to learn some valuable lessons from Gulf-I... what they learned was that their emperor had no clothes. I give them credit for learning from the misfortune of others.