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![]() ![]() Flint-made daggers and spears, and leather or wickerwork shields, did quite as much to shape the tactics adopted by ancient societies as horses did during the middle ages and as tanks, aircraft, and various combat ships do today. However, almost certainly there would have been no real war.įrom the first day that technology was introduced to war, it has helped shape the latter. Some fights might even have been motivated by the sheer fun of taking on an enemy and overcoming him. There would no doubt have been fights over living space, access to resources such as food water, females, and precedence. ![]() Under such circumstances early human warfare might perhaps have resembled the kind of strife we witness among chimpanzees. He can hit–a purpose for which his arms are much better suited than those of any other animal–and bite, but he can hardly kill he can choke, but doing so takes time, and few people are so strong that they could not be overpowered by a few others. After all, without technology, if only in the form of sticks and stones, man’s ability to kill his own kind is extremely limited. Indeed, without technology, there would probably have been no war. ![]() War and technology have always been linked very closely. ![]()
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