World War #3

Last weekend's slaughter in Paris is not just an isolated event. It is another step in lunatic fringe Islam's war with the West. It's evolution at work. It is what war has become.

It's a dispersed war. It is no longer concentrated on massed battlefields where dug-in armies slug it out as in WW1 or highly mobile mechanized armies do battle on the run as in WWII. Now, this new war can erupt any time, anywhere.

At this point it ought to be quite clear that major technological changes were initiated and hurried along by battlefield needs. If we see technology as a plus, then war is a plus, too, right?

So what we have now is limited skirmishes launched by psychological basket cases all around the planet. 

Their contribution to the evolution of technology is significant. There would have been no pressing need to develop the high-flying drones, the satellite monitoring systems and the smart bombs fully capable of taking out targeted sites anywhere on the face of the planet and deliver a knockout punch on mobile moving targets from the edge of space.

There remains only the problem of correctly identifying moving targets from space, but rest assured there are people working on it right now. When that one is solved, we can thank the jihadis for initiating its need.

While effective in weeding out the homicidal psychopaths among us, war also costs many innocent lives, so it is unclear if it qualifies as a good evolutionary process. We can only sit back and hope that over all, it serves humanity's evolution in a positive way.