Is There Any Role Of Science In Modern Warfare?

In modern warfare the part that science plays is much more important than ever. In fact modern warfare may be termed as totally a scientific warfare. The fearless officers and brave soldiers who die determinedly in the combat zone do not count of much. One nuclear physicist can cause more destruction among the enemy ranks than many divisions of infantry.

Moreover apart from such dangerous military hardware discovered by science, secure success in war is not the gallant army but heavy industries which are also products of science. During the World War II, no nation showed such feats of bravery and sacrifice as the Japanese, but they went before the Americans, because of their dominance in industrial productivity. Modern victory does not depend on material ardor, but on production of steel, oil, uranium, etc.

On account of the increasing role that science has begun to play in war, modern warfare is highly unhelpful. After the French Revolution France was incessantly at war with the various nations of Europe for more than twenty years, but the loss of human life was nothing as compared to the loss that Europe suffered during the six years of World War II. A modern nation at war is more organized, more disciplined, and more completely concentrated, on the effort to secure victory, than was possible in the pre-industrial times, with the result that the defeat is more serious, more disorganizing and more demoralizing to the general Population.

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