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What are the key takeaways? What can the West do to improve its military effectiveness?
1) Mass matters - you need the bulk to endure a war of attrition. Both the key Western rivals of Russia and China have this bulk in basic weaponry, manpower and munitions. The West needs to think about how much force it could supply to a prolonged war
2) Drone warfare - Drones can overwhelm, and reconnoiter and are a significant force multiplier allowing asymmetric attacks on naval assets for example. They provide new and innovative attack vectors and defensive strategies
3) It is hard to mass for an attack - precision weaponry at a distance means that massing forces can be quickly annihilated.
4) Air supremacy matters and neither side achieved this in Ukraine, this would not be the case in a shooting war with NATO.
5) West is best - Russian technology has proven inferior but they have more of it.
6) We know what they are thinking - Russian military secrets are on display on the battlefield and can be analyzed and countered with previous-generation Western weaponry while we develop the next-generation kit.
7) Force combination and overview of the battlefield matters. You need the overview provided by good surveillance and communication technologies.
What are the key military lessons of this war? How can the West improve its own military effectiveness as a result of what has been learned?
1) Mass matters - you need the bulk to endure a war of attrition. Both the key Western rivals of Russia and China have this bulk in basic weaponry, manpower and munitions. The West needs to think about how much force it could supply to a prolonged war
2) Drone warfare - Drones can overwhelm, and reconnoiter and are a significant force multiplier allowing asymmetric attacks on naval assets for example. They provide new and innovative attack vectors and defensive strategies
3) It is hard to mass for an attack - precision weaponry at a distance means that massing forces can be quickly annihilated.
4) Air supremacy matters and neither side achieved this in Ukraine, this would not be the case in a shooting war with NATO.
5) West is best - Russian technology has proven inferior but they have more of it.
6) We know what they are thinking - Russian military secrets are on display on the battlefield and can be analyzed and countered with previous-generation Western weaponry while we develop the next-generation kit.
7) Force combination and overview of the battlefield matters. You need the overview provided by good surveillance and communication technologies.
What are the key military lessons of this war? How can the West improve its own military effectiveness as a result of what has been learned?