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Culture Warring phases 1980s: chariots + poorly trained conscript infantry (BBS era) 1990s: trained infantry (Usenet) 2000s: Blogs as light cavalry 2010s: heavy cavalry armored knights backed by serf infantry vs forts Next up: Magna Carta, yeoman longbow warfare, Robin Hood
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Can't wait for the mechanized warfare era when we look back on people today throwing around terms like "weaponized memes" and laugh sadly at how little they knew
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True. Still, I wonder where we could go after the medieval era. What will be the Sherman tank of cultural warfare? and will it seem as incomprehensible to us as a tank would've seemed to a knight (and as bot armies would've seemed in the BBS days)