Modern Warfare Tendencies and Implications for the Baltic Region: Adapting to a New Era of Conflict
Journal: Mūsų žinynas karo mokslo karinio rengimo ir auklėjimo žurnalas
Year: 2026

This article argues that the character of war has shifted toward cheap, smart mass—drones across air, sea, and land—integrated into fast kill-webs that compress detect-decide-deliver cycles. Layered ground-based air defense (guns / lasers / SHORAD / MRAD) and rigorous counter-UAS have displaced assumptions of persistent air dominance and restored affordable protection against swarms and cruise missiles. The electromagnetic spectrum now decides outcomes: forces that train “GPS-degraded by default