Computers and the Military
When the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Personal Computers (PCs). But the computer revolution also made its impact on other areas, which the bright scientists probably never anticipated. War has in all times been one of the main reasons that new inventions have been made, and the military was quick to see the destructive potential in computer technology and to try to exploit it to get ahead of the enemies. Due to the development within technology, the military is now far more than just infantry whose task is to run around in the front line and fire their guns. Warfare is now totally dependent on sophisticated computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers
At the same time, the specially trained military section of Electronic Warfare is constantly trying to hack into the enemy's communication system both to capture and decrypt any messages of any interest and to jam their frequencies to prevent their internal communication. The section of Electronic Warfare can also hack into the enemy's civil computer system to steal information or create disorder by for example shutting down all electricity and water supply for the major cities which would force the enemy to take attention away from the front line to restore domestic order. Since computers do all of this, the military nowadays try to recruit educated computer operators and they are also working hard to educate their own specialists that can operate all of the highly developed equipment. The changes we have seen over the last decades are that the military is getting less and less physical and more intellectual. Though these changes have taken place, the public's vision of a soldier or officer haven't changed. Changing people's perception takes a lot of time and during this time the development will have gone further and weapons and defense systems will be even more sophisticated. There are so many sides to computers. Computers have improved the lives of many disabled people significantly by enabling them to communicate or increasing their mobility. Computers have made an impact in all areas of people's lives increasing their access to knowledge and reducing the manual labor needed both in industry and in everyday tasks like washing dishes and writing letters. Computers have created lots of new jobs, but also taken the place of the majority of the former working class in their industry jobs. The military intelligence is indispensable for all operations, and the intelligence is depending more and more on the information they get from satellites. Satellites can take spy pictures of whatever they program it to take pictures of and transmit it back to their ground computers where computer experts make enemy maps of the encrypted code they receive from the satellites. Satellite pictures reveal where the enemy troops are and where they are heading. That information is then sent to the officers in charge, so they can make decisions about tactics, troop movement and maybe predict the enemy's strategy. Both aircraft and ships use
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