Battles Cannot Be Won Without Measurement?

Although fighting in war is not something that is that great of a thing and people would prefer that they just didn’t happen there are times where they are impossible to avoid. Without the use of proper measurement would it have even been possible for major wars such as WW1 and 2 to even have happened or perhaps even stopped?

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). This was combination of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power all deployed at rapid speed and it was very successfully used to break enemy lines and proceeding without the need to worry about flanking.

Weapons

Sometimes measurement is important when it comes to weapons and the most important one I can think of is the development of the nuclear 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.