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> The gap between Military and Civilian tech is shrinking. Maybe it's vacillating. From the it's easier to destroy than to create perspective, this feels like
by WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> The gap between Military and Civilian tech is shrinking.
Maybe it's vacillating. From the it's easier to destroy than to create perspective, this feels like the natural trend of warfare.
We already had inexpensive explosives. The difference here is a worthwhile delivery system is getting cheap.
It can be argued that drones themselves have been making big changes across all kinds of industries and this is part of that wave.
Drones may turn to be as pivotal as locomotion, air-conditioning and the internet.
- bombcar 3y agoCannons made forts very massive for awhile, and then they overcame them, and things changed. Even guns had done the same to armor.
- mjh2539 3y agoCannons made forts rely primarily on angled, earthwork curtains.
- uticus 3y agoSometimes it vacillates between times of war and peace. The gap is usually wider when extended times of peace allow the "war tech" to be developed with the increased funding and secrecy allowed by peacetime. Sometimes it vacillates with general tech advancements. Tech driven by large bureaucratic structures will still occasionally fall behind what's available on an open market driven by competition and the public's bias toward cheaper goods. In other words, as a country's general economy goes, so goes its war chest... unless it manages a quite large war chest, in which case it can attempt to conquer another country and pillage the economic spoils of that country.