Future wars and cloud computing

The future of cloud computing is scary, presumably because future cloud computing will also be linked to war. It seems to be a bit hard to accept, after all, in peacetime, war is a slightly sensitive word. But why does the fiery cloud computing in the IT world overlap with war? The future war will not use the power of the cloud to become more brutal, or instead of a different scene, it is really worth paying attention to.

Before parsing the relationship between cloud computing and warfare, it is necessary to understand some of the concepts associated with cloud computing, which, after all, are already the darling of the IT industry in the immediate environment. "Cloud" is not difficult to understand, but when it is connected to "computation", the meaning becomes broad and fuzzy. Some analysts and companies have simply seen cloud computing as an upgraded version of computing-a cluster of virtual servers provided by the traditional Internet. There are also a number of people defined more broadly, in their view, outside the firewall protection of all consumer things are counted as "cloud."

"It is becoming a popular word," Benpring, a senior analyst at Gartner. "What does this popular word mean?" a lot of the industry's view is that the basic principle of cloud computing is that, by distributing computing across a large number of distributed computers, rather than on a local computer or a remote server, enterprise data centers run more like the Internet. This allows the enterprise to switch resources to the required applications and to access the computer and storage systems as needed. This is a revolutionary move, for example, from an ancient single generator to a power plant's centralized power supply model. It means that computing power can also be used as a commodity circulation, like gas, water and electricity, easy to use, low-cost. The biggest difference is that it is transmitted over the Internet.

Although it is said to want to use electricity, but there are some differences, here is not too much elaboration. Let's take a look at some of the features of the war now, and find some points to prove that cloud computing has something to do with future wars.

War is the highest form of conflict among political groups, among nations (tribes) and countries (federations), and is one of the highest and most violent means of settling disputes, and is usually the quickest and most effective solution. It can also be explained by the use of violent means of destruction and maintenance of order, collapse and reconstruction. According to statistics, the First World War spent 186.3 billion dollars, the Second World War spent 4 trillion dollars, the Korean War 340 billion U.S. dollars, Vietnam War 720 billion dollars, the Persian Gulf War 102 billion U.S. dollars, the fourth time Arab-Israeli war 21 billion dollars, the Afghan war 116 billion dollars, The Iran-Iraq war 150 billion U.S. dollars, the United States against Yugoslavia Kosovo air raids cost is 25 billion U.S. dollars. World War I: 30 countries and regions, 1.5 billion people involved in war, on the battlefield on both sides of the number of casualties reached more than 30 million.

World War II: 61 countries and regions, more than 2 billion people were involved in the war, more than 100 million troops, about 90 million soldiers and civilian casualties, more than 30 million displaced. Speaking of which I think, later because of cloud computing, once the war, the consequences will be more serious, or casualties can be reduced, in fact, this is not our most concerned about, we still hope that the war does not happen well.

Cloud computing has unparalleled advantages for simulation training. In today's world, no country, other than the United States, will continue to train its troops through real warfare, and the main means of improving the military's combat capability in other countries is training. But there must be a considerable gap between training and actual combat. At present, how to let the soldiers experience the real battlefield atmosphere in the training is still a big problem for the military, but the advent of cloud computing will make all kinds of deep simulation training possible. As long as the network is connected, the soldiers can be trained in highly simulated environments. This will make the actual combat atmosphere of military training more dense, greatly reduce the distance between training and actual combat. Training to combat, the Army's combat will be greatly improved.

So the current cloud computing in the military war application is more used to train the army, improve the army's combat capacity. This seems to be more helpful to a country's national defense level, so cloud computing is in some ways a safeguard for world peace. No matter how cloud computing develops, and what direction it is heading towards, a peaceful and effective application of cloud computing should be an industry consensus.

The advent of the cloud era has brought a certain impact on many industries, but more is to change some old outdated technology, in the integration of resources to reduce costs, improve efficiency and other advantages are obvious, the relationship between cloud computing and war, in fact, the white cloud is used in the military industry, improve the military industry, a scientific performance, So it's not very scary.