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Obviously there is a critical threshhold beyond which the technologically superior simply will be overrun by bigger numbers.

Smaller numbers also means: more expensive equipment in smaller reserve-quantities. This makes the same numerically loss for the technological superior side more hurting than for the numerically superior.

Examples:

flooding a superior ICBM/MRBM shield via greater numbers. The attacker needs just to attack in greater numbers, and the defence breaks down, inevitably. Producing more missiles with the current tehcnology also is cheaper than to mnaintain a "sufficient" shield system and -technology.

In the cold war, from late 60s on, many fighter pilots in Europe expressed doubts (in books they wrote later, or biographies) that the technological advantage of the West in fighters and sensors would be enough to compensate the greater numbers of Eastern air forces.

The same argument can be imagined regarding the numerical dysbalance in tanks.

So, superior technology in a conflict were both sides fight on the basis of same military dogma (symmetric conflicts) helps always, but can compensate numerical inferiority only tzo a certain treshhold level - not beyond.

In asymmetrical conflicts, the superiority in technology is much less meaningful. Here nothing really compensates for the number of boots on the ground in order to not only conquer but also to hold new ground, and a functional anti-terror intelligence work and police work.

For the US, technology plays a role in scenarios of wars against China, but here it also is ecopnomic and ficnial and global-market factors which leaves the US nevertheless more vulnerable despite technological (and slwoly decreasing) superiority. In Afghanistan, the latest submarine quitening technology and missiles obviously plays a smaller role, with other technoplogy like satellite surveillance still being important. In Iraq, it is about good police work, investigation, infiltration and anti-terror operation and intelligence. You satellites and hightech weapons do not mean much here.