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Japan and Germany could do what they did because they were under the US protection of those brinkmanship tools. Furthermore, military tech has a huge impact on
by flyinglizard 6y ago
Japan and Germany could do what they did because they were under the US protection of those brinkmanship tools.
Furthermore, military tech has a huge impact on everyday life (jet engines, satellites, communications). Even when the tech was not directly invented by the military, it was still at some time a major customer or patron of the tech.
- looping__lui 6y agoProtection from whom? Never in the history of time has Russia ever attacked Germany... If we learned anything post-WW II it is that you cannot win wars with technological superiority and they look like a huge waste of ressources. Vietnam, Afghanistan anyone?
- mperham 6y agothe Warsaw Pact and NATO?
- looping__lui 6y agoWhat would have been the incentive for either side to start a war that would end civilisation for all times? I do understand that a lot of well paid people had us buy weapons we don’t need for decades; they did a good job in convincing our parents and their parents that evil is just about to make its move. Just spend less money and have a compulsory military service. Young men without any military ambition from the very society they are supposed to protect are just very eager not doing anything and not shooting anybody up - until shit really hits the fan in their home country and they have to.
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- anateus 6y agoSeven Years' War would beg to differ :)