Why Weapon Training and Warfare Drilling are Essential for the Boys?

Why do humans have to fight the war?

Therefore the survival of humans is a constant battle to ensure a safe shelter, enough energy, enough food, fresh drinking water, and essential minerals, not only for today but also till our and our children’s life is expected to last. Considering the maximum known age of humans is about 125 years, we want to ensure the essential reserves for at least 250 years.

Because all the essentials of human life and civilization exist in limited amounts, whenever the essential reserves of {food, energy, water, minerals, and shelter} reduce and are insufficient for a group of people for 250 years, they have to forage out, go out in search of the other places where the essential reserves are sufficient(or at least available for few decades).

Assume that ten people including you are struck in a desert.
There is one packet of ten breads and one bottle of drinking water, and your rescue is expected to arrive after six months.

What you are going to do?
Divide the bread packet among all of you and share the one-liter water with all of you?

(If you do so, none of these ten people will survive, as the food and the water are insufficient for any of the ten. This can stretch hard for one person.)

So how would you decide, who amongst these ten of you are going to live and who are these nine who are going to die?

This is when you have to battle. All the ten will now be engaged in verbal debate to start with, then a mental battle, and then finally you all would have to resort to a physical battle and eliminate the others if one has to survive.

If one of these ten struck in the desert has a Revolver with 12 rounds of bullet, another one has a knife and the rest eight have no weapons, who are the two who would remain till the end you think? Of course the two men with the weapons. Isn’t it?

And when all the rest are eliminated, what would these two men do? Divide the food. Initially, they will collaborate, but eventually, they both would want to eliminate each other by fighting a war.

History of war

When Sargon the Great(2334 BCE), established the first known empire in recent history in Mesopotamia he used wars and weapons to subjugate the tribes living in pockets of Mesopotamia back then and then connected them with the first modern state machinery.

Romans took the war to a whole new level, where they went out as far as they could to take control over the territories, plunder, and ensure royalty. The Roman army was one of the most organized modern armies with drills, dress, weapons, strategies, formation, and so on.

Long before the city of Rome came into existence in 720 BCE, Mesopotamian states like Akkad, and Babylon battled it out in the wars for more than 1200 years starting from 2400 BCE till about 1178BCE, which was the end of the Bronze Age. Egypt, Persia(currently Iran), Greeks, Anatolia(Turkey), and the early city-states, empires, and civilizations had to constantly battle it out amongst themselves.

Probably more humans have died due to war, than by any other cause or calamities.

The history of war goes far back to modern civilization and into evolution. Chimpanzees, one of our close ancestors, are one of the most violent species. One group attacks another group all the time for territorial control.

Not only humans, all the animals including monkeys, lions, and any species need to battle it out when the reserves and availability of the essentials of life are limited. They maintain perfect harmony when the essential resources are plenty and sufficient for ages to come.