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1. Classical Antiquity
Phalanxes, siege engines, and Roman logistics turned war into an engineering problem. Roads = power projection.
2. Gunpowder Revolution
Gunpowder killed the knight. Cannons reshaped cities. Forts evolved, and centralized states took over warfare.
3. Napoleonic Era
Mass conscription, maneuver warfare, and rapid logistics via corps structures redefined operational scale.
4. Industrial Revolution
Mass-produced rifles, railroads, and telegraphs turned war into a mechanized system. Industry became strategy.
5. World War I
Tanks, trenches, gas, and air recon birthed modern combined arms. Total war met tech shock—devastatingly.
6. World War II
Radar, nukes, jets, and codebreaking. WWII was the mother of dual-use tech: computing, aerospace, energy. 1 reply
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7. Cold War
ICBMs, stealth, satellites, ARPANET. Military R&D accidentally invented the modern world: GPS, internet, more.
8. Post-9/11
Drones, cyber ops, special forces, biometric surveillance. Small wars + big data = asymmetric dominance.
9. AI-Warfare Era
Autonomous drones, LLMs, hypersonics. Private firms outpacing defense primes. The battlefield goes fully digital. 0 reply
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