You’re being downvoted, yet evidence is outer clear that a great many technology advancements have directly derived from conflict pressures. We’d get the same effect if it weren’t for fucking small-government, low tax shit-for-brains, but we don’t. When vast, collective resources are poured into a field, it generates a lot of waste but also a lot of progress. Progress isn’t impossible without war, but historically we see far more advancement during times of war than during times of peace.

If we ever cure cancer, it’ll be because we had a war and, during the development of some weapon, the huge concentration of resources resulted in discoveries that someone noticed - as a side effect - happened to cure cancer. It’ll never happen without a war because there’s no private sector motivation to cure cancer: there’s too much money and industry invested in treating cancer.

You’re essentially right.