alt Hacker NewsI 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.
> don’t think much of the medical advances that prevent that came from combat medicine
Triage and ambulances come from battle medicine [1]. (Not sure about communicable-disease prevention.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Jean_Larrey