Ukraine: The Revolution in Warfare That the U.S. Army Is Not Prepared For – Part III
Ukraine is in an artillery war. The king of battle was the largest casualty producer for both sides and is unlike anything any Western military has seen since the Korean War or World War II (according to Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of Ukraine’s ground forces, drones now kill more soldiers than artillery).1 The heavy use of fires coupled with modern technology has made artillery a game changer on the battlefield. Both the AFU and Russian forces use unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as mobile forward observation posts and their accuracy and response times have progressively gotten better over the course of the war.2 The increased use of AI has also increased the lethality of accuracy of all unmanned systems.