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TeaHe Latest dispatches from the front lines By of independent World Affairs editor, Sam Kiely, is a graphic illustration of how much the conflict in Ukraine has changed modern warfare – and how it could work to Kiev and the West’s advantage.
Not long ago, President Zelensky was leading a delegation to Western capitals, shortly after President Putin launched his “special military operation,” the latest step in Russia’s push to remove his country from the map. Request for conventional weapons of war – Modern battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, advanced fighter jets etc.
All of these are important, and there is still a clear and urgent need to enhance Ukraine’s missile defense systems. However, first Kiev and now Russia have developed drone and robot technologies to this level old rules had to be rewrittenmore cheap “Kamikaze” drone Could also devastate heavily fortified army positions miles behind the front line, while supply lines and armored columns could be easily eliminated “FPV” (First Person View) Operator Away from danger area.
For some time, jamming systems threatened to make radio-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles obsolete until the advent of ultra-thin fiber optic cables, which can run for miles and carry instructions without fear of interference. These could only be stopped by ground infantry: an almost impossible task.
Drones have a chilling effect on troops, as do a new generation of “ground drones” – small, remotely guided tracked vehicles that can move undetected over excavations and shelters. In recent weeks it was also reported that a combined air and ground drone strike resulted in the surrender and capture of two Russian soldiers, who were transported by machines to Ukrainian prisoners of war.
This new technology is already changing warfare in the same way that airplanes and tanks did in World War I, and early rockets and radar did in World War II. Strategically, if Ukraine continues to gain a technological edge over the Russians in this area of unmanned warfare, it can counter the Russians’ undeniable advances in manpower.
This forceful use of the often badly equipped and poorly trained but vast Russian army Ultimately, will eliminate any enemyEven if he has better weapons – the “meat grinder” theory of war. The second long-held stereotype was that Russia’s sheer size allowed it to keep munitions factories and bomber bases away from the enemy, thereby helping to defeat Napoleon and Hitler. Drones and long-range missiles decisively influence the balance of power, and give Ukrainians great hope that they can continue the war for at least two or three years – the timeframe that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has suggested President Zelensky has in mind.
Yet, as Mr. Tusk has also emphasized in recent speeches and interviews, it appears that the West has neither fully grasped the reality of the Russian threat nor the possibility that the Russians, forced by the Ukrainians to step up their game, will develop drones and similar weapons that match those offered by NATO. Mr Tusk declares himself “shocked” at public level Complacency about UK securityAnd he is right to be worried. Nevertheless, NATO is threatened by the rise of American isolationism – not limited to the MAGA movement – and by the disinformation activities of the Kremlin-friendly Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán.
In other words, it is not entirely clear that Britain and other European powers fully understand what is happening in Ukraine. There is also “Our War” – Nor that the Western military establishment is fully prepared for the new ways of fighting a war with Russia that may be inevitable. Even months of intrusion Russian aircraft in NATO airspaceCyber attacks, espionage and social media manipulation proven to stoke division appear not to have generated much public concern.
Today, because they have no choice, the Ukrainians are using artificial intelligence to enable their unmanned aircraft to select targets autonomously, which is another technological breakthrough. Would that NATO’s complacent leaders and governments had even a fraction of his resourcefulness and determination?