Evolution of War

It is rather obvious that the war has evolved and it has changed a lot too. For example, in the past soldier used spears, shields, bow, crossbow, etc. to fight during the war. It was not that devastating as it would not hurt too many innocence, especially the citizens who were not involved in the war. A soldier would not intentionally kill the innocence, even if he would, he could not kill many people in such a short period, he had to commit to the war. But in nowadays, soldier has guns, grenades, mines, etc. to fight during the war. Those thrown weapons, especially grenades and remote mines, can cause massive damages to a large area and kill a lot of innocence. Furthermore, they are largely produced in a short time. Although in the past there are soldiers using cannon in the war, but it was not as devastating as grenades, and it took very long time to cool down and recharge. While grenades can be rapidly thrown as long as there are enough supplies of them. The purposes of the wars in the past and nowadays are rather different. In the past, the soldiers could be fighting for freedom, to gain power, to obliterate mortal enemies and many other reasons which were considered unique nowadays. But now some people start the war because they want to protest to the tyrants what they are not satisfied of. Some wars are started due to the wide variety of races and religions, like terrorism. The infamous terrorist organization Al-Qaeda had many wars with the army of USA, the terrorists sacrifice themselves to fight because they think that it is a glory to die for Allah, the God of Muslim, but Americans think that this will cause chaos in the world if terrorism is not stopped.

Concluding my points above, there are two main differences between the war in the past and nowadays, i.e. the intention of the war and the weaponry of the war.