nemy plans to fight.
             Knowledge is of supreme importance for the leader of any army about to do battle, both of their own army and that of the enemy. In an ancient Chinese book, The Art of War, Sun Zi Bing Fa wrote about the importance of knowledge and its effect on strategy:
             If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. (Sun Zi Bing Fa (Sun Tzu), 1782, Chapter 3).
             What role has technology played in warfare historically?
             Since prehistoric times, warriors have used technology to fight neighboring tribes, kingdoms and countries. Native Americans were famous for sending messages by smoke. Information about locations, events and schedules were communicated over long distances by drum rhythms, as well. Whether through drums, smoke or relay runners, the passing along of valuable information was necessary in times of war or peace in pre-Columbian America.
             The communication of information concerning numbers and locations of people in the enemy tribe, how many warriors were encamped in certain locations, the amount of weaponry and horses one had on their own side and the kind of skills available were important pieces of information for planning strategies for prehistoric man. Technology was also used in weaponry. The bow and arrow were intricate and well-developed technological weapons. More powerful and ingenious weapons were developed by the Chinese (explosives) and Europeans (the catapult) at about the same time in history, and as time has progressed even more technologically advanced weapons have developed. In the 1940s the airplane and then jet power were discovered. When scientists revealed the power which lay in the atom the most powerful weapon ever used was developed. Technology and secret information about weap...