Hi, Marcia!

[N]ot meaning to sway anyone with my comments in parenthesis

Oh, which easily-influenced stubborn bullheaded cuss did you have in mind? LOLOL! I can't think of a soul here you'd have to worry about.

I would have to choose option B, "the war will be won or lost based on other factors". Technology only means tools; important as they are, the applications to which they are put makes all the difference. Imagination, strategy and planning constitute "other factors" to me.

And: geography, resources, courage, flexibility, intelligence and luck. Attention to detail is another factor.

Last but not least, what constitutes "turning the tide"? Rendering terrorists impotent? Killing them? Putting them on trial in a court of law? Making sitcoms ridiculing them? ;) Eliminating the root conditions that caused terrorism to grow?

A very broad and sketchy question deserves a broad and sketchy answer.

What was your best guess, Marcia?

Regards--
Mary Anne