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11:10 - To me, war helps bring out ideas into production, it doesn't create new technology. For example, the United States was able to develop the Manhattan Project because at the time the United States had about half of the world's economy, and could afford the R&D on something that did not have a guarantee of results.

The key to tech development is rivalry, not war. Nations competing with each other will try to come up with new technologies, and without war the nations will have more of their economy available to research and develop any technologies being produced. Corporations that compete with each other will try to be more efficient and develop new items, instead of corporations funding legal teams to prevent competitors from emerging.

Coalition wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:35 pm 11:10 - To me, war helps bring out ideas into production, it doesn't create new technology. For example, the United States was able to develop the Manhattan Project because at the time the United States had about half of the world's economy, and could afford the R&D on something that did not have a guarantee of results.

The key to tech development is rivalry, not war. Nations competing with each other will try to come up with new technologies, and without war the nations will have more of their economy available to research and develop any technologies being produced. Corporations that compete with each other will try to be more efficient and develop new items, instead of corporations funding legal teams to prevent competitors from emerging.

One of the key things got to consider when we talk about WW2 is also allocation of resources and perhaps applies here as well for the Mirror Universe.

One of big reasons why Nazi Germany lost was their lack of unified vision of what to develop and how to use it. Take for example their own Atomic Bomb program, they had multiple teams researching the same thing and never communicating with each other. So basically all of them inventing the wheel but never telling others they did it.

Or Hitler looking for that super weapon that can win the war. Which would have been the Bomb, but instead they got super guns, rocket powered super short ranged planes, battleship program of no realistic possibility of overtaking Britain with. Just to name a few things off of the top of my head.

The US had the economy, the industrial power and the fuel to hammer Nazi Germany to the ground. The numbers are staggering. But you really have to see that the administration for that war was far more focused than Nazi Germany.