William Schryver grasped the new realities of warfare back in 2022. His predictions are playing out and most of the West’s brain trust still doesn’t get it. From Schryver at imetatronink.substack.com:
The essay below was originally published in early July 2022. Version 1.0 of #TheMotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine had been severely attrited, and Version 2.0 would not appear until later in the summer.
Nevertheless, it had already become very apparent that the Russian strategy and doctrine for this war was not at all what the vast majority of western military “experts” expected it to be. And consequently they lacked the capacity to understand what was happening.
For the most part, they still don’t get it.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million Ukrainians (and a few thousand NATO-affiliated “volunteers”) have been sacrificed on the altar of western hubris and military ineptitude. Vast quantities of western equipment and ammunition has been expended — to the point of near-exhaustion in European NATO countries, and acute depletion of American stockpiles.
And yet the doctrine and tactics described in this mid-2022 article have changed only in the sense that the Russians have consistently refined and improved them along the way, even as the US/NATO have effectively learned nothing.
I’ve watched a LOT of drone footage from this war. I’ve seen, from a bird’s eye view, as it were, the design of the field fortifications Ukraine constructed, with NATO guidance, over the course of eight years.
The logic of these miles and miles of fortifications harkens back to the 1864-65 Battle of Petersburg (US Civil War), with a few World War I innovations thrown in for good measure.
Still the weirdest one I saw was a drone that dropped money to flush out troops, then along came one with a grenade that landed right on a troop’s back.
And the kamikaze that will take out a tank if it hits that vulnerable spot where the turret goes into the hull.
Israeli tank photos showed some fencing around that part as anti-drone defense.
The first drone swarm versus drone swarm battle has taken place with UKE winning round one.
We will catch up in the drone wars after Brandon completes the Indian Ocean High Speed Rail?
Or will spicy hot AOC complete the NYC to Hawaii HSR first?