Look down at your feet . Usually in a dream your subconscious won ' t bother to think up a floor . <| sep |> Not quite the same as two armies going head to head . That style of warfare is dead great set piece battles . Then it ' s just a matter of attrition , the result can be predicted beforehand without all the slaughter . Warfare will be asymmetric like 911 or guerrilla . For eg . In a confrontation between a developed nation and a developing nation , the developing country would be quite aware that they would be obliterated in any conventional confrontation they ' re developing not cretins . They will not engage at developed world convenience . Take Viet Nam . The US lost against a dirt poor country with no infrastructure . They are currently getting their asses kicked in Afghanistan . You need to look at the bigger picture it ' s not only weapons tech . Motivation is a big issue . Those people were fighting against the invasion of their countries against a culturally alien enemy US they didn ' t particularly like . US troops didn ' t want to die or be maimed in a foreign country fighting for causes they don ' t understand . Any rational person would just want to get out of it undead and unmaimed . It ' s not as if they were defending their homeland . Just a stupid ideology that the instigators kept their carcasses well away from . When you ' re up against a powerful adversary , you use hitandrun guerrilla tactics . This is a Proudly South AfricanTM invention invented during the AngloBoer War . A group of farmers and parttime fighters Boer almost won a war against the mightiest nation existing at the time Britain . They did this using guerrilla tactics .