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This 4 page paper discusses what has been most successful in developing the western way of war and argues that it (technology) will continue in the future. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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talk about the "western" way of war, we mean war fought in a European way: technologically advanced, rather than relying on what we might consider "Eastern" methods, perhaps things like
spies and poison. According to Geoffrey Parker, methods of fighting develop because of a societys structure: those with plentiful land but few people "tend to favour a ritualized conflict in
which only a few champions actually fight but their fate decides that of everyone" (Parker, 2008, p. 2). Perhaps the greatest military mind in history, Sun-Tzu, said that "to subdue
the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill" (Parker, 2008, p. 2). Even today in Eastern cultures such as Indonesia differences are settled in the same way they have
been for centuries (Parker, 2008). But most wars are fought in the Western way. According to Parker, this change in warfare "rests upon five principal foundations" (2008, p. 2). The
first is the fact that Western powers tend to rely on technology to make up for inferior numbers (Parker, 2008). This isnt to say that the West always has a
technological advantage; until the advent of "musketry volleys and field artillery in the early seventeenth century, the recurved bow used by horse archers all over Asia proved far more effective"
(Parker, 2008, p. 2). However, archers such as these rarely came into contact with the West and when they did, the conflict was not sustained (Parker, 2008). Today, military
advances in one nation are immediately copied by everyone else; to fail to do so could leave one open to attack (Parker, 2008). Because of this, technological innovation "and the
equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an established feature of western warfare" (Parker, 2008, p. 2). Clearly, then, the Cold War is a Western war; people in
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