Re: Roads Not Taken
Reliable contact fuse grenades edging out the musket.
Hyper accurate parachutes preventing the drop being replaced by the heliocopter(on one occasion in Vietnam a general ordered a drop because he was desperate to get a lot of men in the AO on time even at the risk of scatter; accurate chutes would make that less of a tricky decision).
Wire fences in the Middle Ages. Wire springs in hollow bows(like a Kernmantle rope). Allowing Sedentarists to gain an edge over Steppemen much sooner then they did.
Medieval Multitool knives.
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