Removing the prolonged world wars changes the pace more than the eventual direction of several military technologies. Horse cavalry would remain useful for longer, while armoured cars could still appear relatively soon. Tanks are treated as a convergent development that probably arrives in the 1920s once suitable engines exist. Nuclear weapons depend more heavily on the acceleration produced by both world wars and are tentatively pushed into the 1960s. These dates are scenario estimates rather than claims about an inevitable sequence.
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Military technology without prolonged world war
Some technologies were already converging on viable designs, while others depended heavily on wartime investment.