A high information climate reduces the effectiveness of maneuver warfare; this is easily demonstrated when I play a multiplayer first-person shooter and my enem

A high information climate reduces the effectiveness of maneuver warfare; this is easily demonstrated when I play a multiplayer first-person shooter and my enemies are employing ESP cheats. They can simply rush my position without any other strategy, which is profoundly different from how an experienced player would behave without that info. What that means at the scale of real war is that populations, even informal militia, have a much greater ability to resist professional armies using similarly simple strategies. Cyberwarfare matters to this, too; and Ukraine is a particularly dangerous foe in this regard given the strength of their IT sector. In effect, it's become quite hard to do anything much with military offensives other than intimidate opponents and bomb some stuff. It's astonishing to look back on reviews of battles from WWII and see how many costly blunders and accidental successes were made because of poor information and coordination. But that quality is also why "blitzkrieg" succeeded as a doctrine.