The engineers and manufacturers were the real heroes of WW2. The war was won in the factories... Basically every war is won by the side who masters the technology of the day. WW3 will be won at the cutting edge of technology, in cyberspace. Power projection, is what Lowery talks about, huh? That feels like the most peaceful way, doesn't it?
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I dunno. The nazi's had jets and rockets. They even had nuke scientists. So strategy plays a good part in it too.
They didn't have the means to produce nine scale. They were "quality oven quantity", but the allies adopted more quickly, and could outproflduce them. The Japanese who similar to the Germans in that way... at least with their Zero airplanes. They just couldn't produce enough, quickly enough.
Corners were cut. And knowing what corners could be cut was important. You probably had to be on the ground making decisions to know what was needed. But that's still getting into strategy over technology. I mean in Afghanistan a bunch of goat farmers with no technology defeated the American military. The Taliban with the best technology were the ones easiest to kill.
That's something a bit different than WW3. Afghanistan's Taliban held off the US because the nature of that war. Kind of like Vietnam. When invading a smaller country, the invaded have more to lose, and guerrilla warfare can work.
There hasn't been a world war since the nuclear weapon was invented. I believe nuclear war is why we now see small proxy wars between the nuclear powers in country's that don't have access to those weapons. The closest that I know of is the skirmishes between India and China. But those battles only have minor casualties and end within a day or two.
The world may become more peaceful as every country gets nukes. WWIII seems far fetched.
I don't think that's true. Germany was ahead with its technology but lost in the end. Also, based on what's happening in Ukraine, I don't see WW3 (if it happens) being fought in cyberspace, but very much on the meatspace called earth.
The Americans figured out the assembly line and mass production. German tech was top shelf but it was slow to build. The factories figured that out, not the generals.
WW3 might be fought everywhere (meat space, cyber space, and in the mind)... might already be happening. Whoever has the best tech (and the most open mind) wins.