Computer and the virtual battlefield

Since World War II (WWII), the funding of scientific research by the Department of Defense (DoD) in America has remained the first priority of federal research funds.

During WWII, the DoD created agencies and linkages that provided billions of dollars to universities and corporations to research and design the weapons that would win the war and wage future wars. Among these weapons were most notably the atomic bomb, the proximity fuse, missile technology and radar. Breakthroughs in electronics during the war led to the modification of anti-aircraft guns. Analogue computers were used to calculate the firing times and trajectories necessary to hit high-speed targets like fighter-bomber aircraft and the German V-1 rocket. Computers were used to calculate artillery tables that solved complicated engineering problems, decoded enemy communications, and opened up the future of technological war. [1]

In military spending nowadays there has been a great need for a cost-effective mean of m...