Foreword
In On War, Carl von Clausewitz tells us that military history is a pendulum swinging back and forth between the relative advantages of armor and of mobility. The knights in shining armor were able to dominate any knight without, but they were no match for the quick, nearly naked pony warriors that swept across the plains with Genghis Kahn and his Mongols. Light cavalry itself was doomed as soon as there were tanks, and tanks were no match for fleet-footed Palestinian teenagers with Sagger missiles. With the Maginot Line, the French were gambling that the pendulum had swung again toward armor, but it hadn't, and the Germans simply went around it.
In the field of IT, we are just emerging from a time in which armor (process) has been king. ...
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