Why Is Measurement Needed In War

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

The measurement is very important before the battle has even begun. How many people are on the opposing sides force, do we have the firepower to defeat them and have they good 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. One of the best strategies even created was of course Hitler’s Blitzkrieg (lightning war). Basically Hitler used a combination of all of his forces, tanks, infantry, artillery, aircraft and deployed them all at rapid speed, this actually very quickly broke the enemy lines and meant they did not have 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.