Sail and shot : the Spanish Armada, July 31-September 21, 1588
Missile and muscle : Breitenfeld and Lü̈tzen, September 17, 1631-November 16, 1632
Flintlocks and forbearance : Assaye, September 23, 1803
Rifles and railroads : Kö̈niggrä̈tz, July 3, 1866
Maxim guns and dum dums : Omdurman, September 2, 1898
Steel and steam : Tsushima, May 27-28, 1905
Tanks and terror : France, May 10-June 22, 1940
Flattops and torpedoes : Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Superfortresses and firebombs : Tokyo, March 9-10, 1945
Precision and professionalism : Kuwait and Iraq, January 17-February 28, 1991
Special forces and horses : Afghanistan, October 7-December 6, 2001
Humvees and IEDs : Iraq, March 20, 2003-May 1, 2005
Epilogue : five hundred years and counting : what the past teaches about the future.
