World war 1,2, Cold war

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Technological innovation has played a significant role in most modern twentieth century armed conflicts In both the great wars- World War I World War II and in the consequent Cold War era ,technology was used to enhance and develop weapons to garner military advantage and turn the conflict in favour of a particular country or respective front . In fact technology has helped to revolutionize the manner in which both the great wars were fought and eventually

won . The cold war was actually more of a foreign policy exercise than an actual war . After the Second World War the new world stipulated the polarization of most of the world into two blocs- the Capitalist Bloc headed by the United States and the Communist Bloc headed by the USSR . Though the cold war was never fought as a military battle the accumulation of weapons of destruction was a major feature of the foreign policy tactics of both the USSR and the US . Known aptly as the arms race this tactic was a key factor that helped determine regional power play in the thirty to forty odd years of the cold war . Some of the weapons introduced by various countries to secure military advantage in the first and Second World War as well as the cold war have been developed and widely adopted to form the military arsenal of most countries world wide

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