Truly, Madly, Deadly

Messengers Of Sorrow, Future Weapons Will Unleash Epic Mayhem.

- Jayesh Shinde

The drumroll of war is beating hard from all directions. Look around you, and you’ll see. There’s a heightening of rhetoric and extreme posturing between nation states around the world. Armament acquisition is on the rise, defence spending is at an all-time high and everyone seems on the edge. It seems like a schoolyard standoff, where two bullies are calling each other names, provoking the other one to throw the first punch, while friends (and general onlookers) surround them with bated breath, unsure of what will happen. But alas, the standoff amidst nation states isn’t so harmless, and if unresolved can have far-reaching consequences.

Why? Because the instruments of war have evolved drastically from what we read about them through the pages of history, as they are far more destructive than ever before. It’s alarmingly shocking how much power just a minor click of a button holds in today’s age. It’s possible to not only blow up enemy targets without engaging them directly in the battlefield, but virtually hack into critical enemy infrastructure and disrupt or takedown their defence, financial, corporate systems to wreck serious havoc and unleash mayhem on your target – if you choose to do so.

Welcome to advanced warfare. And this is not a game. Let’s look at the armaments of destruction.