I might be interested in PhD thesis on the subject, but I’d be surprised if anyone commenting on a BBS could pull anything meaningful out of their arse in a few hundred words…
It’s a fairly large subject, but more importantly, it’s not a transparent one.
And how do you interpret the question? If you consider it to mean ‘Do wars [and the threat of war] really advance technology [beyond a point it’d reach otherwise]?’ (which I suspect is the intended meaning) you get a different answer than if you read the question more literally.
