Ever since World War II, computers have been increasing in importance in perspective to war. The nation with the stronger computer tends to win the war, or at very least have the advantage in the war. Starting in World War II computers became prominent thanks to the advancements made by the British and in specific, Alan Turing. Over years military grade computers have greatly improved from what they were in the time of The Colossus to the computers simulations of the Cold War to the drone based militaries present today in the United States. The invention and development of the computer has been the largest change in war in history as it has completely changed how war was fought. Prior to the invention of the computer war was fought with numbers, weapons, and leadership.
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In 1941, Turing and his cohorts deciphered the German 's original Enigma cypher by hand, which made it possible to let the Allies figure out where the German U-boats were before the Germans could even attack. The issue with deciphering the system was that it took too much time and energy out of those deciphering the Enigma. Turing and several other members of the British Code and Cypher School, became determined to develop something that would not put as much stress on them. Within a year they developed The Colossus, which would take in intercepted German messages, and the operators would make the computer cypher through the message until they determined the message would become readable. They did this for every knew cypher the Germans made. So within hours to days of creating the new cyphers they would be broken. This made it incredibly easy to combat the Axis Powers and eventually concluded with the Axis 's surrender. The Colossus changed the layout of war as prior to its invention, militant groups would not be able to decode the opposing groups messages without having a double agent leaking
In 1941, Turing and his cohorts deciphered the German 's original Enigma cypher by hand, which made it possible to let the Allies figure out where the German U-boats were before the Germans could even attack. The issue with deciphering the system was that it took too much time and energy out of those deciphering the Enigma. Turing and several other members of the British Code and Cypher School, became determined to develop something that would not put as much stress on them. Within a year they developed The Colossus, which would take in intercepted German messages, and the operators would make the computer cypher through the message until they determined the message would become readable. They did this for every knew cypher the Germans made. So within hours to days of creating the new cyphers they would be broken. This made it incredibly easy to combat the Axis Powers and eventually concluded with the Axis 's surrender. The Colossus changed the layout of war as prior to its invention, militant groups would not be able to decode the opposing groups messages without having a double agent leaking