17th April 2005, 1:20 AM
Unsporting, but for whom? Being taken surprise at night is easy, unless you lack a sufficient capacity to stage an attack at night. I think nighttime battles were rare not because of fairness, but because it was simply too hard to do successfully.
Anyway, you're right about their ability to handle a modern foe, but that's an aside. My point is that they might think such a force is a spawn of hell. Enemies that see in total darkness, that can talk to each other without being anywhere near another human being, that can absorb bullets with flak jackets, and best of all, that can fly... and rain destruction from the heavens. Such abilities, people of that time period would consider supernatural. Thus, Clarke's Third Law.
Anyway, you're right about their ability to handle a modern foe, but that's an aside. My point is that they might think such a force is a spawn of hell. Enemies that see in total darkness, that can talk to each other without being anywhere near another human being, that can absorb bullets with flak jackets, and best of all, that can fly... and rain destruction from the heavens. Such abilities, people of that time period would consider supernatural. Thus, Clarke's Third Law.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR