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which wars were won where one side had the greater manufacturing capability and the other side achieved a decisive win with technological advantage?

I cant think of any.



The First Opium War is the best example I could find: a small expeditionary force ran circles around a peer country's army for more than a year and crippled it thanks to total naval superiority and qualitatively better artillery and rifles.

The conquest of Aztecs is another example: Spain annihilated a country with twice the population. Though they cheated with bioweapons of course.


Most of the credit for the conquest of the Aztecs should be given to the hundreds of thousands of native soldiers fighting against the Aztecs, not "bioweapons" (which hurt both sides) or Spanish guns.


These wars predate the industrial revolution and manufacturing.


Moving the goalposts.


? They did not even have a concept for germs?


Smallpox and other germ diseases killed more natives than Spanish bullets did.

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