What advances would mankind be capable of were it not obsessed with war?

Answer 1

The old professor says: Hey! Everyone knows that "war is good business". Think of the medical advances made possible by all those treatments developed to heal wounds. Plastic surgery owes its very beginnings to reconstructive surgery done to war inflicted wounds.

The aviation industry, production of man-made materials, advances in communications, space exploration (V-2s), computers (navigation/code breaking/trajectory calculation, etc) transportation, etc. etc. all owe their rapid advancement in development due to the exigencies of war. Without wars, technical progress would be much slower. The only problem with all of this is that we can only hope that the technology doesn't outrun us and lead to our demise.

So, to answer your question...we would probably not be enjoying many of the modern conveniences we have if it weren't for war. Humans work well under pressure! Necessity is the mother of invention, etc. says it all.

Answer 2

I don't know. What advances would you be capable of if you were not obsessed with war? I've made a few when not interrupted by war, and also a few while trying to deal with war.

Answer 3

We would be capable of the same ones... but it would take longer as there would be no necessity driving us forward. Not to mention of course that we have long since depleted our resources and food supplies from massive overpopulation... and what would mankind even look like without that type of passion... would we even be human without conflict? As mush as it upsets people... war is something necessary to us, it is part of us... and it is why we survive.

Answer 4

Maybe none.....

Most of our major advances in science occurred because of wars and the search for new weapons and the means to deliver them, and also for defensive systems to nullify the effects of weapons.