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VampireFrown
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Don't have much time to respond to this, but military history is like my #1 hobby (apart from RS, of course
). It's false (sorry for not inviting debate on this point, it's just almost impractical to argue) to say that society would be more advanced if the WWs didn't happen and/or conflicts (military or ideological) didn't happen. So much (and I mean SO MUCH) technology that we take for granted these days are the direct result of military innovation. Some things were originally weapons, adapted years later by civilian scientists to better society. Other things were meant to be weapons but turned out to be a flop, so were passed to civilian hands very quickly, and developed that way so the military wouldn't have to waste more money on it. Other things still were developed not as a means of hurting anyone else, but to win an ideological war (space race between USA/USSR is the most used example, but there are others), and filtered down through society. Other things still were found completely by accident!
Really interesting topic that I look forward to reading/debating on (if it's allowed in these forums).
-Vamp
This basically. Wars destroys economies(except in rare occasions), but accelerates technological advances.
Don't have much time to respond to this, but military history is like my #1 hobby (apart from RS, of course
). It's false (sorry for not inviting debate on this point, it's just almost impractical to argue) to say that society would be more advanced if the WWs didn't happen and/or conflicts (military or ideological) didn't happen. So much (and I mean SO MUCH) technology that we take for granted these days are the direct result of military innovation. Some things were originally weapons, adapted years later by civilian scientists to better society. Other things were meant to be weapons but turned out to be a flop, so were passed to civilian hands very quickly, and developed that way so the military wouldn't have to waste more money on it. Other things still were developed not as a means of hurting anyone else, but to win an ideological war (space race between USA/USSR is the most used example, but there are others), and filtered down through society. Other things still were found completely by accident!
Really interesting topic that I look forward to reading/debating on (if it's allowed in these forums).
-Vamp
This basically. Wars destroys economies(except in rare occasions), but accelerates technological advances.
09-Apr-2016 19:25:58
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