The Ukraine war raises a difficult question: Can armies maneuver to win anymore?
Advertisement"Firepower kills," warned the French General Philippe Pétain just prior to the First World War.
By temporarily suppressing the defensive drone-artillery combo that has proven so devastating in the Russo-Ukraine War, armies can again maneuver to defeat their enemies.
ISW sees three problems with trying to maneuver in Ukraine, lessons that broadly apply to modern battlefields.
AdvertisementArtillery and machine guns were so deadly in World War I that armies fought from trenches.
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