Military History - By Category. Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government. A Short History of War: The Evolution of Warfare and Weapons. MILITARY HISTORY. The Evolution of Warfare, the 3 element approach. From the very beginning of our species history we have waged war. Some archaeologists claim the first act of homo sapiens on the world stage was that of genocide with the systematic destruction of the Neanderthals although there is no suggestion of an organised war effort, evidence points to small scale conflict slowly driving the physically stronger Neanderthals into less favourable areas for survival as they were defeated by the homo sapiens who although weaker and less well adapted to the northern European climate could communicate and unite to gain dominance of better settlement areas.
Clearly the in built aggression of our species has been a tremendous driving force in our development and rapid rise to the dominate species on the planet, although countless millions have died in warfare since history began it is also clear that much of our technological and sociological development has come from war. The current age of warfare is what could be termed the post nuclear age. Merging Ultimate And Proximate Causes In Sociobiology And Studies Of Warfare.