的确，尽管从公元前216年汉尼拔击溃罗马人到1991年的海湾战争都有一个这样的重心（其表现是能对敌方施以毁灭性打击的军事力量的大规模集中 ） ， 而这种工业化的国家间战争现在已经成为历史陈迹。
Indeed, while wars from the time of Hannibal’s defeat of the Romans in 216 B.C. to the Gulf War of 1991 had this center of gravity, with a massive concentration of force capable of bringing an enemy to its knees, such industrial inter-state wars have now become an historical anachronism.