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Three Landmark Weapons Of Modern Warfare

It seems that throughout history, modern and ancient, the greatest efforts expended by man have been directed towards the development of war weapons. Socialists will say it is actually because of the aggressive nature of man, who endeavored most of all to dominate his fellows as a matter of survival. He who can command others has the least chance of expiring through extraordinary methods because he has more means at his disposal, including human lives.

Others may argue, however, that to respond to aggression of people with greater capabilities, those with less capacities must reduce if not eliminate the numerical advantage of the other via superior weapons. This was probably the line of reasoning why Hitler developed the Vergeltungswaffen, the V1 and V2 flying bombs, and the Me262, the first jetfighters to engage in air combat. Adolf Hitler sought to counter the Allied Powers’ superiority in weapons quantity and men through ‘miracle weapons’ or, more exactly, ‘vengeance weapons’.

But the landmark world war weapons are not the rockets, but the tanks.  In both world wars, tanks, either by greater number or better tactics, forced the outcome of decisive battles in all areas of conflict. In such battles, tank formations either captured territory or inflicted such grave losses on the enemy that caused him to withdraw. The introduction of the first tanks in the Battle of the Somme caused so much consternation on the Germans they were forced to give up so much ground.  The new weapon gave the Allied Powers better advantage on the field.

Thus Germany used the tank as main offensive weapon –along with air attacks--- in their blitzkrieg strategies in World War 2. Heinz Guderian’s panzer-led spearheads were so successful in France in the first days of World War 2 that even Hitler thought Guderian was lying when Guderian said they were nearing the English Channel. The German Army Command and Hitler believed Guderian was lying in his combat progress reports and commanded him to stop for verification. So the British Army was saved at Dunkirk.

In the American Civil War, among the most prominent civil war weapons will be the bayonet. Hand-to-hand- fighting was performed there in significant scale and the bayonet was a decisive weapon for either side. Since repeating rifles were at its initial development at the time, the primary close quarters infantry weapon was the bayonet, not the sword, a cavalry weapon. After the musket, the bayonet was the second most effective killing instrument at the time.

For the Middle Ages, the most notable of medieval weapons, though not for offense but for defense, is the knight’s armor. Wearing it, a knight can smite a hundred unprotected foot soldiers without suffering a scratch, fight a similarly-clad knight for a day without anyone winning if of equal expertise, and rest for the night as if nothing has happened, to fight the next day. He is much protected in his suit of armor that he can confident of surviving every battle, until the English long bow gave him his match.
But the long bow is a totally different topic for discussion next.

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