Military transformation

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- Military Transformation

Though there were a number of contributing factors that helped different military units

gain success from 1915 until 1945 , the single most important factor was technical modernization

of those armies . It can be said that all of the other contributing factors helped military leaders

feel more in touch with their soldiers and more comfortable at battle but nothing was more

important in the long run than the advancement in modern military technology . In to come

to this conclusion , one only has

to look at those military units who were successful and compare

them to the military units that did not see a similar resurgence during the previously mentioned

time frame . Simply put , the countries that focused the bulk of their effort on technical

modernization saw a more rapid gain in power than those units who did not take similar methods

to advance their army . These examples come from all over the globe , but the most prevalent

examples come from the world 's super powers , including the United States of American and

England Starting with World War I , the world was a place in constant flux Countries saw a rise

of new leadership and new political thinking , as no one seemed safe This was not the case in

the United States , though . The stability of the American government allowed the nation to focus

its efforts more on military advancement than on other distractions . In America 's case , the

development of the Air Force was the single technical advancement that pushed the army from

being powerful to being one of the best military forces in the entire world . In World War I

American utilized bombing planes that dropped large bombs all over Europe . This helped the

Americans to overcome the strong ground force that was against them in World War I . The

interesting thing about this was that , even though American had one of the best Air Force units

in the entire world during World War I , they never stopped trying to make improvements . During

the first World War , America discovered that , though planes were expensive to use , they cost

much less life than ground forces . Planes were occasionally shot down but they were not defeated

with nearly as much frequency as ground forces were . Tanks could be attacked much more easily

than planes could , especially during the early going . America took advantage of what other

countries could not do , which is a recurring theme in American military history

When the leaders of the American military figured out that their enemies could not keep

up with them on the aerial front , they kept pushing the envelope even more . During World War I

it was difficult for the leaders to work on any new developments , but they immediately starting

working following the first World War . This is why when World War II rolled around , America 's

Air Force set it apart from all of the other armies across the world The American leaders realized...