Human Factor and Military Technology in Warfare: A Historical Perspective
摘要
The development of military organization has always gone hand in hand with the development of military technology. A great many inventions were, from the outset, connected with warfare or were used in warfare. Weapons systems created as a result of the development of military technology have had a major impact on warfare, especially in the twentieth century, when the Industrial Revolution finally bore fruit, expanding throughout Europe. The experience of military history shows that any military technological invention can only be effective if it is successfully integrated into the military organization and its use is thought through within a theoretical concept. The mere possession of military technology does not always produce results or win the war. In the final analysis, war is still a war between people, and the human factor will always be decisive, because the weapon, whatever it may be, will always remain a tool in human hands (assuming that humans will be able to maintain control of artificial intelligence in the future). This is the nature of war, as military history has demonstrated, but it is also the very nature of artificial intelligence that it makes the future essentially unpredictable.