Why Is Measurement Needed In War

Sometimes a war is not avoidable, take WW2 for example, you cannot just let one nation rule the world so they had to be stopped there is no arguments there. 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

Measurement comes straight in at the planning stages. The things that need to be though of are, how many people are we up against, do we have enough firepower, do they have any weaknesses? These are all things that generals need to be thinking of before the battle even starts and it would be impossible to win a war without measurements in the planning stages. Although I do not agree with any of his methods Adolf Hitlers Blitzkrieg was one of the best strategies ever thought of. 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. Weapons like the cannon would have never of come into existence if it wasnt for careful calculations and measurements.

The worryingly thing is that these measurements are getting easier to predict with the current weapons we have thanks to the computers we now use. 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.