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> What Ukraine has shown is that war is mostly unchanged, you're still mostly just digging trenches and firing artillery at each other. This is what wars turn
by mcpackieh 3y ago
> What Ukraine has shown is that war is mostly unchanged, you're still mostly just digging trenches and firing artillery at each other.
This is what wars turn into when both sides are roughly matched on the battlefield, and/or aren't particularly good at war (lacking the competency or equipment for maneuver warfare.) The Iran-Iraq War turned into this same sort of trench warfare during the 80s, but when America went to war against Iraq in the 91 they bulldozed Iraq's trenches and buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers, breaking through or bypassing the Iraqi fortifications in mere hours.
I hope we don't get to find out, but I think a war between NATO and Russia would go a lot differently than the war between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia.