I feel like we may be in an era of military technology that is similar to the eve of WWI. Like Russia learned the hard way that all of the maneuver warfare that we developed in the mid 20th century has been rendered obsolete by all of the man-portable anti-air and anti-armor weapons that were developed in the late 20th century, resulting in any war between peer or near-peer opponents inevitably bogging down the way that this one has because all of the ways we know to break open a battle line have been answered. A hundred years of military advancement and we're right back to trenches and artillery barrages.
A hundred years of military advancement and we’re right back to trenches and artillery barrages.
I dunno I'm certainly not as vocal about this stuff as other people because I'm very much a wait and see type of person, but I think I wouldn't characterize it this way. It seems to me we're seeing the new horizon of combat in this conflict, it's not a strict regression. Hypersonic missiles, the uh complexity of the international supply lines for the MIC, evolution of drone warfare and EWAR, social media and war reporting propaganda unlike anything we've seen, the breakdown of the old blocs and alliances, etc.
I've been thinking the same but with regards to drones as the modern equivalent of the machine gun. Both drones and machine guns were used extensively in colonial wars where their victims had extremely limited access to those same weapons. Tactics and strategies evolved around this, as well as a false sense of superiority due to their battlefield advantages. Now peers are facing off against each other, both with access to drones, and we're seeing how that turns tanks and armoured vehicles into coffins
Well, they have hypersonic missiles that kind of eliminate anti air. I guess this war is kinda like how the US Civil War prefigured WW1 or the Boer War did, just no one at the top paid any attention to how it had changed.
I feel like we may be in an era of military technology that is similar to the eve of WWI. Like Russia learned the hard way that all of the maneuver warfare that we developed in the mid 20th century has been rendered obsolete by all of the man-portable anti-air and anti-armor weapons that were developed in the late 20th century, resulting in any war between peer or near-peer opponents inevitably bogging down the way that this one has because all of the ways we know to break open a battle line have been answered. A hundred years of military advancement and we're right back to trenches and artillery barrages.
I dunno I'm certainly not as vocal about this stuff as other people because I'm very much a wait and see type of person, but I think I wouldn't characterize it this way. It seems to me we're seeing the new horizon of combat in this conflict, it's not a strict regression. Hypersonic missiles, the uh complexity of the international supply lines for the MIC, evolution of drone warfare and EWAR, social media and war reporting propaganda unlike anything we've seen, the breakdown of the old blocs and alliances, etc.
I've been thinking the same but with regards to drones as the modern equivalent of the machine gun. Both drones and machine guns were used extensively in colonial wars where their victims had extremely limited access to those same weapons. Tactics and strategies evolved around this, as well as a false sense of superiority due to their battlefield advantages. Now peers are facing off against each other, both with access to drones, and we're seeing how that turns tanks and armoured vehicles into coffins
Well, they have hypersonic missiles that kind of eliminate anti air. I guess this war is kinda like how the US Civil War prefigured WW1 or the Boer War did, just no one at the top paid any attention to how it had changed.
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