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		JumpCrisscross 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone l... > 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

wat10000 45 days ago [–]

Right, those are relatively minor improvements compared to soldiers no longer dying en masse from typhoid, smallpox, measles, etc. Good improvements to be sure, but not quite as significant.

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