Sometimes a war is not avoidable, take WW2 for example, you cannot just let one nation rule the world so they had to be stopped there is no arguments there. 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
Measurement comes straight in at the planning stages. 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). This was combination of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power all deployed at rapid speed and it was very successfully used to break enemy lines and proceeding without the need to worry about flanking.
Weapons
Measurement is actually very important when it comes to weapon creation too and the most famous example really has to be the atomic bomb. All kinds of measurements were used and are still used today such as level 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 worryingly thing is that these measurements are getting easier to predict with the current weapons we have thanks to the computers we now use. 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.
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