| >Wars of the future can be fought with machines and the country with the most resources will win. These machines are built to do the most damage on the enemy and not just their machines. Once the robots are down, the winning party don't hold theirs back. Guns and bombs can hit further than arrows so enemies keep fighting further from the front line, but the death toll keeps increasing. >the country with the most resources will win. With more and better machines, even more resources will be put into wars. More resources get wasted, more machines get destroyed and more people get to die. Total wars is a product of industrial revolutions. It changes the units in the scale of wars, from thousands victims to dozens of millions. And these machines - however smart and accurate - always end up killing civilians en masse. Look at the sophistication of the Israeli weapon system, what happened to Gaza in the past few weeks and tell me how technology saves lives in wars? It it isn't even symmetric warfare! I hope you get to watch this incredible visualization one day, if you haven't already: The Fallen of WWII – https://vimeo.com/128373915 |
World population growth has more to do with this than anything else.
The area of china lost 40 million people, 70% of its population, during the Three Kingdom Wars - that’s on the order of 20% of the world’s population.