alt Hacker News> Improved health care is what allowed nations to create and maintain larger military forces
Isn’t it the other way? With a lot of medicine’s modern advances being rooted in combat medicine?
> Improved health care is what allowed nations to create and maintain larger military forces
Isn’t it the other way? With a lot of medicine’s modern advances being rooted in combat medicine?
I think they mean communicable diseases, not combat injuries. For example, around 2/3rds of the military deaths in the American civil war were from disease, not combat. I don’t think much of the medical advances that prevent that came from combat medicine.