| But guided weapons were still too much in their infancy to be of any real practical use. The fact that they were not used in Korea proves this further.
It was in Vietnam that the guided weapon became a practical weapon.
In fact, World War I isn't the first war that used airplanes. The First Balkan War of 1912 used airplanes, but these were far worse than the ones that would follow in 1914. Not having made a significant impact, I don't attribute the airplane's entry as an effective war machine until the First World War.
To count the atom bomb drop as the first shot of World War III is quite a stretch because Japan would be on America's side for "World War III." In fact, the link between World War I and World War II are also direct, so if you want a link, you would link World War I, II and III into one big massive war, and in fact, throw in all the Balkan Wars as well.
Everything is linked with everything.
The Atom bomb was a product of World War II, which went on to define the Cold War. It was the one thing that all sides were rushing to perfect before the other. |