Measurement: War Needs It
Letting one nation take over the worl is not something anybody really wants which is why some wars like WW2 simply had to happen. Without measurement would it have been possible for us and many other people to have come out of a battle winning?
Tactics/ Planning
Well the first thing we need measurement for are of course the tactics of battle. Planning stages usually have around 3 or 4 major questions that need to be answered and a couple of them are, how many troops do they have, do we have enough firepower to rip them apart? Walking into a battle blind is what you would be doing if the generals had not carefully used measurement to plan the first wave of attack. One of the best strategies even created was of course Hitler’s Blitzkrieg (lightning war). Hitler was a very clever guy there is no doubt about that, Blitzkrieg was and still is one of the cleverest tactics ever created and meant the Nazi forces never had to worry about being flanked.
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 big problem comes because measurements are getting easier to predict which is simply because of the computers we have. 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.
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