How conflicts in Armenia and the Ukraine changed how armies train for war #defencenews #ukraine #war
Channel: Soldiers Five
Date: 24/02/2024

Russia’s special military operation in the Ukraine was not the first modern war to begin laying the groundwork for how armies train for future conflicts, the second Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020 did that. 

With many commenters noting the effectiveness or UAV’s in both reconnaissance and strike roles bringing a new level of transparency to the battlefield more familiar to players of real time strategy games than staff officers in the command tent. 

Artillery also returned to its rightful place as king of the battlefield, as the prevalence of EW countermeasures and man portable surface to air missiles made their early elimination more and more difficult. With the aforementioned UAV recon making their shells more and more deadly to any infantry caught manoeuvring in the open.  

The conflict in the Ukraine has since served to reinforce these lessons, at a scale the entire western world is struggling to keep up with 

Armies the world over now train with expectation that they are always watched, that digging a foxhole brings life and a sudden lack of artillery shells or EW support brings swift death.