Did you know that nearly 50% of world scientists are asigned to military projects? Do you think we could solve a lot of world issues if that wasn't the case?

A vast majority of the technology created for the military becomes of use in the public and private sectors. The reasoning behind the creation of the technology doesn't matter as much as the end result for me. Some notable examples of "military" technology turned civilian:

1: Practically all advances in aviation have been a result of military contracts. The idea of aviation itself was a military one, first used by Zhuge Liang in China to coordinate troop movements.

2: Satellites: GPS (the one you use for you car is still ran by the military), Communications, and entertainment all due to military innovation.

3: Doppler radar was a result of military advances. It is now used in air defense, air traffic control, sounding satellites, police speed guns, and radiology.

4: The Internet. Thats right, without the military you wouldn't have even been able to ask this question. In October 1962, J.C.R. Licklider was appointed head of the United States Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, and his early work while there laid what would become the foundation for the internet. Future DARPA members would advance the idea even further.

Just because 50% of the world's scientists (where did you get that number anyway?) get their funding from the military, it doesn't mean that their inventions don't benefit everyone. +3

Without data you're just another person waving your hand. . .

Source, please.

no. we need them making weapons. it would be nice in teletubby land were nobody fights, but there are people out there, radicals and whole nations, that would like to see us burn. we need defense and offense development. and, like z-weezy says, military technology aids domestic technology.

the internet was made by the us military. now its useful to all of us.