Advancement in Military Technologies

Introduction

The technology of war has always been a struggle over competitive edge. From the Roman Empire to today, militaries worldwide have worked to gain an advantage through technology. Each side desires to protect its soldiers, and to inflict damage on the enemy. However, research and development of the machines of war have often led to technological advances in other ways. Things that may have only seemed to be important on the battlefield have also transitioned into effective civilian applications. In medicine, communications, and transportation, American wars have inspired many innovations.

These innovations have had severe consequences. As weapons have improved, more lives have been sacrificed on the battlefield. The Civil War is seen by many to be the first modern conflict to utilize the first generation of modern warfare equipment. A devastating number of American soldiers were either killed or wounded on the battlefield. This equipment would become common in the wars that followed. In the era of the World Wars, the results of military technological advances had even more dire consequences for not only soldiers, but civilians as well. From machine guns to tanks, to mines, rockets, nuclear bombs and chemical weapons, the technologies of war have expanded immensely in their destructive capabilities.

Military technology is any technology generation used almost exclusively to the Army, be it weapons, transportation, defense, uniforms, etc. Military technology is therefore usable only by the military and certain exceptions. The combined arms-in-force for air, land and sea crisis response (Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps) have been increasingly dependent on liquid fossil fuels for tactical and humanitarian operations in both austere and sublime environments. Innovation and adaptation - hallmarks of the American spirit continue to prove strategic and effective to transition of forces away from the burdens of liquid fuel and in development of new energy resource (Reardon, Pp. 270).

With government money going to research and development, wars can speed up technological innovations. Those innovations can be applied to civilian life as well. Take a look at the Civil War and World War II and investigate the inventions that those conflicts spurred. The technology of war has always been a struggle over competitive edge. From the Roman Empire to today, militaries worldwide have worked to gain an advantage through technology. Each side desires to protect its soldiers, and to inflict damage on the enemy. However, research and development of the machines of war have often led to technological advances in other ways. Things that may have only seemed to be important on the battlefield have also transitioned into effective civilian applications. In medicine, communications, and transportation, American wars have inspired many innovations.

These innovations have had severe consequences. As weapons have improved, more lives have been sacrificed on the battlefield. The Civil War is seen by many to be the first modern conflict to utilize the first generation of modern warfare equipment. A devastating number of American soldiers were either killed or wounded on the battlefield. This equipment would become common in the wars that ...