The ability to efficiently make war has gone from a model based on men and machines to one which is in part based on software, communications systems, and sophisticated hardware.

最先进的战争已经从人与机器的模式转变成软件，通讯系统，精密硬件的战争。

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Early in the second world war, Britain took its time to let America into the secrets of Ultra, the decryption of German secret communications by code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

第二次世界大战的早期，英国花时间让美国获知了Ultra的机密，这是电码译者在Bletchley Park破译的德国机密通信的译码。

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But now, speculation has given way to a bidding war between Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications .

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And because they begrudge nearly everything about Clinton, the Dole campaign has stubbornly refused to organize a communications war room modeled on the Little Rock wonder.

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But even when a modern communications infrastructure exists, war can destroy it.

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