Article prob behind a paywall but can be accessed.
The art of war has been changed inexorably.
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With thousands of Ukrainian and Russian drones in the air along the front line at a given time, from cheap quadrocopters to long-range winged aircraft that can fly hundreds of miles and stay on target for hours, the very nature of war has transformed.
The drones are just one element of change. New integrated battle-management systems that provide imaging and locations in real time all the way down to the platoon and squad levels-in Ukraine's case, via the Starlink satellite network-have made targeting near instantaneous.
"Today, a column of tanks or a column of advancing troops can be discovered in three to five minutes and hit in another three minutes. The survivability on the move is no more than 10 minutes," said Maj. Gen. Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy commander of Ukraine's HUR military intelligence service. "Surprises have become very difficult to achieve."
The technological revolution triggered by the Ukraine war, Europe's biggest conflict in nearly eight decades, is calling into question the feasibility of some of the basic concepts of American military doctrine.
Combined-arms maneuvers using large groups of armored vehicles and tanks to make rapid breakthroughs-something that Washington and its allies had expected the Ukrainian offensive this summer to achieve-may no longer be possible in principle, some soldiers here say. The inevitable implication, according to Ukrainian commanders, is that the conflict won't end soon.
wsj.com/world/drones-eve...s70396gnlc3uf8