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Future of conflicts.

What I believe the future of war will look like.

By NickPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
Future of conflicts.
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Conflicts are a big part of human history sins we have waged all kinds of wars with other types of animals like the Emu war that was waged in Australia and humanity has even waged wars with other humans for resources and to expand there own countrys interests. Humanity have also waged war because of differences between the types of people, for example the kristian crusades when the desired to go around playing war and killing people only because of there religion and we even has an more resent example of this and that is the second world war where humans decided to try and eradicate the entire population of an religion to be mor exact they tried to eradicate the juice only because a charismatic leader was rejected from an art school so this was pretty much Hitler throwing a temper tantrum. As we can se Humanity is naturally drawn to conflicts for all kinds of reasons and purposes. Different ways to wage war will emerged when technology develops so it would be difficult to predict everything that will change in warfare and exactly how that will be used on the battlefield. So what is the future for conflicts?

The future for conflicts look promising or ominous depending on your personal opinion since it is guarantied that conflicts will escalate if we look at our past aggressions like Ian Morris said ”The nature of collective violence hasn’t changed much in millennia, it's just that human groups where smaller in the past”. So because of our gradual population increase the conflicts will also be more deadly and have more casualties but the conflicts will most likely also last longer because of this fact. It is not only doom and gloom it could be good because of conflicts like those previously mentioned it has caused us to speed up the development of different technologies we even have an example of this in the two world wars where they used planes even tho plans where created much earlier for a different war I chose to mention the two world wars because they are the reason we managed to make planes and flight commercially available mostly because of the demand but there where also other reason for that development. So war has plenty of good aspects and I would even say that the good out ways the bad sure people might die but they are expendable.

For the future, conflicts will seize being joust another game because the war crimes will start to become more obsolete because there is rely no meaningful punishments for those that decide to commit war crimes and we already see examples of this on the war in Ukraine so when everyone docent see anyone truly get punished for there blatant disregard for the games roles and this will cause others countrys to stop obeying the roles and true wars will begin where they don’t care about anything else except there own country and that is how wars should be fought in my opinion but my opinions are all over the place. But this is truly something to celebrate without the rules holding the country’s back they will be able to improve exponentially like they did on the cold war when they managed to get to the moon mostly because of the war that caused the United States and the Soviet Union to compete with each other on who would get there first in what is now referred to as the space race. That very space race had a big inpakt on US society they even started new educational institutes. The space race also lead too many other advancements for example the internet is one such advancement.

War isn’t necessary for technology to improve we would still advance and the cost of war is to great for what we might gain out of it people die, they suffer and become disabled thanks to war, people starve and even illnesses are more rampant when there is a war in progress. But there isn’t only physical unrest there is also mental unrest such as PTSD so the war isn’t over when people stop killing each other because people return to there family scared or they don’t return to there family at all and both outcomes will lead to som form of mental strain so the soldiers that return are different people they aren’t the once that left to fight the war because to them the war never ended. But isn’t that worth it, so what if a few thousand suffers if our technology can advance. I would say that it is worth it because if there weren’t as meny medical advancements because of war then meny more would suffer as a result of that an example of an medical advancement that was because of a war is I chemotherapy for causer and that was discovered in the first world war then there are other advancements like using metal plates to sea fractures with was discovered in the second world war and there are many other advancements that I could bring up that can be attributed to war. If we didn’t have war then our technology would be from around the same level as it was in the 1700. 20400000 are saved each year by blood transfusion that existed because of the first world war while 20 million died in that very conflict and this concludes that 400000 people more are saved each year then people died in the first world war. But this is only in theory sins each pint of blood can save up to three individuals and in one year they donate 6.8 million pints of blood. This is only in one country and that is the USA.

The future are full of uncertainties but when it comes to conflicts along the lines of war, I am certain that such conflicts will also be more revolved around information warfare because of our technology improvements and as someone once said ” if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”. But they are still going to do it in the old fashion way only that information warfare will become far more prevalent in war so there will be far more difficult to actually keep secrets from other country’s. But this is not all bad because with their being a difficulty in hiding once information they are instead going to attempt to feed there enemies the wrong information instead and you can probably guess what type of improvements this can lead towards.

Lastly we have said that conflicts will escalate and there are going to be more casualties because of the increased population furthermore we have talked about war crimes and that they will start to become obsolete then we talked about the bad of war but that was quietly shut down by saying how many survived because of war the last thing we talked about a more prevalent information warfare.

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