Op-Ed in today's LA Times - Battles Change, Wars Don't by Victor Davis Hanson.

"MODERNISTS LIKE to believe that we have entered an entirely new era of armed conflict. To some military thinkers, it's the primordial nature of the terrorists' beheadings, suicide bombings and improvised explosive devices that has marked a completely new form of 'asymmetrical warfare' in which the two sides are terribly mismatched."

"Others have a different argument. They say it is our own high-tech, computer-enhanced munitions that have reinvented the very nature of conflict into something called 4th-generational war..."