The Economist magazine ran a very interesting cover story on the Ukraine war recently. To illustrate it, they showed the photo of a long line of tired soldiers making their way through a muddy, trench infested battlefield, pockmarked by artillery. It could have been a scene straight out of Ypres or Somme in World War I. Except for one vital difference – in the sky above, a swarm of drones hovered overhead. The image
depicted tellingly the fact that though warfare has changed, it still remains more or less the same.
The incessant shelling, the barbed wire and lines of trenches, the hand-to-hand fighting in cities and buildings, and the tanks lurking in the background are all scenes out of earlier wars. But the drones show how new technology dominates the battlefield. In other words, though warfare and its principles have remained the same, modern technology and concepts have added a new dimension to it.
Lessons from the Ukrainian Battlefield
