Ka kammala wannan magana: Ƙarfin bindigogi na Yammacin duniya ya kawo musu fa'idodi masu yawa a yaƙi. Alal misali, a Yaƙin Ƙwaya da aka yi a ƙasar Sin a ƙarni na 19, jiragen yaƙi na Britaniya sun yi ruwan bama-bamai a kan yankunan da ke bakin teku da kuma sansanin soja daga nesa, ba tare da bindigogin ƙasar Sin ba. Hakazalika, yaƙi mafi guntu a tarihi,
Yaƙin Anglo-Zanzibar na 1896, an kawo shi zuwa ƙarshen sauri ta hanyar harbe-harbe daga jiragen ruwa na Burtaniya. Halin rashin tausayi game da sojojin da aka dauka a gaban dakarun da ke da karfi a fagen fama shine tushen kalmar "ciwon daji", wanda François-René de Chateaubriand ya fara amfani da shi, a 1814; duk da haka, William Shakespeare ya ambaci ra'ayi na kallon sojoji a matsayin "abinci don foda" tun farkon 1598, a Henry IV, Sashe na 1.