how computers are used in military
Computers In Military Applications
Computers have given the modern military a degree of efficiency and effectiveness that has completely changed the way the military operates at sea, in the air, and on the ground. The fast computational abilities and the accuracy of digital computing enable the military to perform more quickly with less risk to themselves and with less cost to their government. Wars fought prior to the advent of digital computing could take years to complete and resulted in tremendous loss of property on both sides.
Weapons of mass destruction used to be the fastest way to achieve the objective. A discussion with Dan Carroll, Vietnam war veteran and current contract engineer for major aerospace companies revealed that in World War
II and in Vietnam, American forces employed a technique known as carpet bombing to wipe out enemy troops and resources. Many large bombers would overfly an area and drop thousands of bombs in an effort to destroy the enemy. This proved to be very costly for both sides in terms of property and human life. The attacking force had to expend many bombs and put many aircraft and their crews at risk by exposing them to enemy anti-aircraft artillery and ground to air missiles. But this technique was far worse for the people on the ground. Entire cities were leveled in one pass and their populations decimated under a constant stream of falling bombs. During
World War II, the allied forces launched one such attack on Dresden,
Germany. The attack was so fearce that the entire city was set ablaze in one gigantic fireball. The heat was so intense that metal objects were melted and the rising thermal created by the fire created tremendous wind storms. Anyone in the city not burned to death was suffocated as the inferno consumed all of the nearby oxygen.
An even earlier example of the brutality of primitive warfare is the
American Civil War. Without computers and aircraft at their disposal,
other
Computers have given the modern military a degree of efficiency and effectiveness that has completely changed the way the military operates at sea, in the air, and on the ground. The fast computational abilities and the accuracy of digital computing enable the military to perform more quickly with less risk to themselves and with less cost to their government. Wars fought prior to the advent of digital computing could take years to complete and resulted in tremendous loss of property on both sides.
Weapons of mass destruction used to be the fastest way to achieve the objective. A discussion with Dan Carroll, Vietnam war veteran and current contract engineer for major aerospace companies revealed that in World War
II and in Vietnam, American forces employed a technique known as carpet bombing to wipe out enemy troops and resources. Many large bombers would overfly an area and drop thousands of bombs in an effort to destroy the enemy. This proved to be very costly for both sides in terms of property and human life. The attacking force had to expend many bombs and put many aircraft and their crews at risk by exposing them to enemy anti-aircraft artillery and ground to air missiles. But this technique was far worse for the people on the ground. Entire cities were leveled in one pass and their populations decimated under a constant stream of falling bombs. During
World War II, the allied forces launched one such attack on Dresden,
Germany. The attack was so fearce that the entire city was set ablaze in one gigantic fireball. The heat was so intense that metal objects were melted and the rising thermal created by the fire created tremendous wind storms. Anyone in the city not burned to death was suffocated as the inferno consumed all of the nearby oxygen.
An even earlier example of the brutality of primitive warfare is the
American Civil War. Without computers and aircraft at their disposal,
other