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Sometimes a war is not avoidable, take WW2 for example, you cannot just let one nation rule the world so they had to be stopped there is no arguments there. So how has measurement helped us to win the wars we have and would it have been the same outcome for many other parties without measurement?

Tactics/ Planning

Measurement comes straight in at the planning stages. The things that need to be though of are, how many people are we up against, do we have enough firepower, do they have any weaknesses? All of these things need to be though of before the battle even starts as without measurements it would be almost like walking into a lost fight before it has started. Although I do not agree with any of his methods Adolf Hitlers Blitzkrieg was one of the best strategies ever thought of. This was combination of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power all deployed at rapid speed and it was very successfully used to break enemy lines and proceeding without the need to worry about flanking.

Weapons

Measurement is actually very important when it comes to weapon creation too and the most famous example really has to be the atomic bomb. All kinds of measurements were used and are still used today such as pressure measurement and level transmitters. On top of this many weapons since the cannon would not have been able to have been fired if it wasn’t for careful calculations and measurements.

The worryingly thing is that these measurements are getting easier to predict with the current weapons we have thanks to the computers we now use. On the plus side this means a bomb detonated by an ally will hit the target with no civilian casualties but from a terrorist there could be some real public losses.

So there you have it,