Would the Crusades have been bloodier with modern technology...?

Question

...or less bloody since numbers show that as technology advances, wars' death tolls drop?

Killed in Civil War
618 THOUSAND

Killed in WWI
495 THOUSAND

Killed in WWII
295 THOUSAND

Killed in Vietnam
58169

Killed in Iraq
3323

Answer 1

Statistically (as you have shown), war becomes less bloody as technological advances ensue. I believe that this is largely due to the fact that with better technology, it is more effective to have the big guns and not need to use them-a kind of "walk softly and carry a big stick" mantra. If you have the superior fire power and a seemingly endless supply of it, intimidation and threats of aggression can be just as effective as going in and beating the opposition to a pulp.

Answer 2

Excuse me

Your numbers for Iraq are out of whack.

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War on Iraq - At Least 655,000 + +

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 3,234

Remember, they are pushing the world to the brink of a Third World War. We are in the beginning stages of their end game plans. The weapons they have in mind are a tad bigger and scarier that what has been seen before.

If the Crusades had been fought in the barbaric way war is fought now, there is no telling how the world would be today. For one thing, the Illuminati would not have arisen from the ashes of the knights templar who had combined with the hashashin of the Middle East.

Much of the evil they do today comes from things these men learned back then. The origins of the Masons. The world might not exist at all. As it is, we risk being blown up on a daily basis now.

I think your theory is just not going to work. Do the numbers from the wars listed above also include civilians? Or those left behind to die of cancers and terror?

Numbers in these cases are far from absolute.

Answer 3

Your Casualty figures are from US casualties alone, and groslly underreport the carnage of WWI and WWII, and also do not count for the massive casualties suffered by the Koreans and Vietnamese in those wars (not to mention Chineses casualties), and for the thousands of Iraqi casualties in the first Gulf War...

Technology has allowed for exponential growth in casualties, maximizing in the 2 world wars, with WWII allowing for massive intentional slaughter of civilians, which was thought to a legitmate means of trying to break your enemy.

More modern technology allows for both more lethal weapons and more selective damage, so now the level of casualty is primarily dependent on the intent of the attacker, so your question cannot be answered without looking at the intent of the hostile parties. Could be either lower or higher...

Answer 4

Probably not. I agree your numbers are WAY off, but the question remains, and I think modern technology may have prevented the whole thing in the first place. If not, then "surgical" strikes and "smart" bombs would have limited collateral damage. Also, this conflict was fought up close and personal with sharp edged weapons, usually a very bloody way to fight.

Answer 5

Killed in WWI 495 thousand? Try multiplying that by at least twenty and you would be nearer the mark. The British empire alone lost over a million. You surely aren't focusing solely on American deaths-that really would be absurd but pretty typical of the mentality of some Americans.

Answer 6

Yes. The technology available at the time was not sufficient to what people WANTED to do. You should check your figures up above. I believe you have only US casualties. You know a lot more people died in WWI and WWII. 10 Million in WWI and 50 Million in WWII. The technology was there to kill that many in a short time.

Answer 7

Umm those are the figures for combatants on the US side try looking for the figures for civilian deaths I think as a ratio to combatant deaths they have increased exponentially.
For example Vietnam 58169 US deaths 3 Million Vietnamese civilian deaths!
In fact in modern war it is far safer to be a soldier than a civilian!

Answer 8

The wars you show numbers for were not about killing nonbelievers.. if the crusades had modern tech, there would have been many more dead..

And those numbers are not accurate at all anyway..

Answer 9

Where did you get these numbers from? They look out by about a factor of 10.

Answer 10

Those numbers truly hit home....