Increasingly, human operators are being supplemented or replaced by automated systems capable of gathering intelligence, identifying targets, and executing strikes with minimal delay.
Welcome to the age of modern warfare. No wonder Russia’s “meat grinder” approach is failing…
Russia treats their soldiers like sheep, Ukraine treats their soldiers like shepherds of robotic sheep, the former is not only a much more careless way to toss away human lives, it is a militarily inferior strategy both in the moment and over time and attrition as experience builds for the shepherds while the sheep are endlessly sacrificed to the frontlines.
Russia banked their whole strategy on robots making human expertise at tactical warfare obsolete and if anything the opposite has happened, warfare has become more demanding of human technical skill not less and this fact has backfired spectacularly on russia because russia never bothered to try to keep its infantry alive or increase their veteran experience, russia only cared that higher ups learned the lessons after all the infantry were slaughtered because of a bad tactic.
The problem is if individual veteran experience is required for competency at modern near-peer warfare than all of that abstracted knowledge isn’t that useful if nobody is still alive who was actually there and experienced it, just useless beaucratic types higher up who have collated words written by people who weren’t there talking about things they didn’t see or do…