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Excargodog
An opinion piece in RUSI by Alex Vershinin
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-res...an-war-ukraine
The Ukrainian Army received some criticism in US military circles over what some perceived as its unwillingness to try proper combined arms tactics against the Russians. Vershinin argues that the presence and ubiquitousness of near real time satellite and real time drone imagery has fundamentally changed the nature of ground warfare which - along with relatively cheap man portable anti armor and antiaircraft activity has changed the battlefield and made wars of attrition much more likely and, until tactics and weaponry can adjust to that, ground warfare may remain far more of a war of attrition similar to WWI trench warfare than the wars of maneuver like Desert Storm in the recent past.
An excerpt:
Probably giving RU waaaayyyy too much credit, odds are good they were simply operating at the "crawl" stage of competency, and effed up when they assessed that would be good enough. Pleny of deets have come out about the state of RU military readiness recently, and it ain't pretty.
And by the way WE can most certainly still execute joint warfare. Without getting too far into the details, satellites and drones require full access to the EM spectrum... suggestions that we'd suffer the same fate is just RU fan-boy delusion.