What new technologies brought the biggest change in how wars are fought?Examples:>guns>planes>nukes>drones
>>65202182the overshot waterwheel.the maudsley screwcutting lathe.
RadiosI mean unless you wanna go back to signal flags
>>65202182guns, if your side cant hold the line your reach matters jack shit
Canned food. Shit lasts all decade so you can actually supply forces rather than being dependent on "Forage".
>>65202182Bessemer process.
GunpowderArtificial NitrogenNuclear EngineeringCybernetics
Large open-die forging presses like this one quite literally were the key to the jet age. This one single machine is of incredible strategic value.
>>65202452https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk
>>65202417This is the answer. And it enabled larger scale wars
>>65202182Agriculture and canning probably
>>65202505Also forgot the haber process. Both massively increased agricultural productivity and easy fixation of nitrogen making explosives/ammunition production much easier. Most of the major changes in warfare have as their initial point some technology that increases the carrying capacity of military age males in the warring countries. That's been the case through all of human history for hundreds of thousands of years until very recently, as in just a few decades.
>>65202182metal cartridges
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>>65202191This is the correct answer, at least for the strictly military side. Having your ability to effectively command over a larger distance than runner is of absolute importance
>>65202460I don't buy it. You can transport hardtack, salted meat and sauerkraut just fine without canning.>>65202555
>>65202182metallic cartridges (which also required fulminates I guess), without which guns would still be single-shot muzzle-loaderssmokeless powder (it's no coincidence that all the brightly colored military uniforms quickly disappeared once it was viable to mass-produce/field)more indirectly, the general industrialization of agriculture enabled fielding of significantly larger standing armies
>>65202182AgricultureCities (Yes, cities are technology)Writing and numbers (try keeping records and doing logistics without them)Preserved/long lasting foodsWalls, trenches, fortifications
There's a big separation between pre-stirrup and post-stirrup war, with some scholars arguing that it was the leading cause of the shift from primarily infantry based combat to cavalry based.
>>65202182More mundane shit: Steam engine. You could force project across oceans in days instead of weeks, even put it on land over rail. Telegraph cable. You can communicate beyond visual range instantaneously.
