American Decades
Warfare
Battlefield Dominance.
Technology played an important part in warfare in the 1990s, helping to make campaigns shorter and more precise, and ensuring U.S. military superiority through technology. During the Persian Gulf War (1991) the United Nations (UN) forces functioned with a computer-like war plan that devastated essential Iraqi command and control facilities. Superior weaponry and better information through technological resources helped UN forces to dominate the Iraqi military.
Chemical and Biological Weapons.
Chemical and biological weapons were, unlike nuclear weapons, easy to produce, hide, and use. Biological warfare was the use of pathogens to harm or kill an adversary's military forces, population, food, or livestock. Any nation with a reasonably advanced pharmaceutical and medical industry had the capacity to mass-produce biological weapons, which were especially threatening because they could be...
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1990's Science and Technology
