-Natural Selection and Innovation
In peacetime, institutions tend to become lazy and bureaucratic. War eliminates the superfluous. A country under threat must innovate to survive
-Research and Development: Scientific discoveries that would take thirty years are concentrated in three. From encrypted communications to jet propulsion, technological progress is born out of wartime necessity.
-State Efficiency: The administrative machine is streamlined. Every resource must be optimized, just like when in Warera you had to decide whether to invest your last gold in defense or in a desperate attack to steal your neighbor's resources.
-The Economic "Reset"
Although destruction is an immense cost, post-war reconstruction often serves as an unprecedented economic boost.
-Cohesion and National Spirit
Nothing unites a population like a common goal. War transforms a mass of individuals into a nation. The sense of sacrifice and collective identity that emerges from conflict can provide the social stability necessary to implement profound reforms that, in normal times, would be blocked by mutual vetoes and political laziness.