In many ways, modern war has reverted to old war. The Tsars’ Russian Empire was built by leaning on their neighbours’ walls until they collapsed and then slowly assimilating the populations into the Mother country.
The Ukraine battlefield today is no longer dominated by tanks, but by all-seeing drones loaded with precision munitions and controlled from safe areas behind the front line. The effect has been to shift the balance from manoeuvre to attrition, (as happened in France in 1914). This has had the effect of Russia returning to her old, tried and trusted way of fighting with an extended trench line stretching for hundreds of miles.
In the First World War, it took four years to develop the tank to the level that it could alter the equilibrium in Flanders and allow visionaries to find a way to shorten the war and so reduce casualties. What we need today is a similar breakthrough in technology with a new type of protection, which harnesses the electromagnetic spectrum to repel the drones and allow ground vehicles the freedom to manoeuvre. Could this be a useful task for Elon Musk, now he is no longer welcome in the White House?
A British Mark V Tank Used By White Russians In Archangel
Rupert Wieloch 