Walter Bright wrote: > You don't have to look far back to see many examples of superior > technology burying a far more powerful foe. For example, there are > several cases where a handful of stringbag airplanes sank capital > battleships. > > Stirling's "Island in the Sea of Time" is about bringing modern weapons > to bronze-age battlefields.
Then, of course, there’s Arthur C. Clarke’s “Superiority”, that turns this trope on its head. —Joel Salomon
