medium-sized countries that will have to
deal with quantitative limitations in the
future. Increased cost of armed aggres-
sion, including the ability to cause dam-
age to the enemy – in particular, to its
expensive resources that are difficult to
reproduce – gives the change of victory,
understood as survival. It means that the
least important capabilities will be those
that do not directly translate into dealing
great casualties among the enemies or
damage to equipment that can be easily
replaced.
Development of such capabilities will be
counterproductive, since it will result
in the illusion of safety, expressed for
example in the number of soldiers, gre-
nade launchers, or heavy guns – without
qualitative progress, nowadays or in the
future, numbers themselves will be unim-
portant. On the other hand, we need to
avoid another trap, which is fascination
with technological novelties that go be-
yond the currently available technology.
The only solution is to stick to reality and
facts – to refrain from idealistic dreams.
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