For 50 years there was no such war. Half a century later Ukraine is experiencing its judge day
This fall will be exactly 50 years old. No other wars are standing on scale, except only Iran-Iraqi, but there were approximately equal to the army, both in size and in terms of technical equipment. The war of the Judicial Day is similar to the war in Ukraine because the army of Israel was opposed by a more numerous and more technically equipped enemy.
And because of the advanced SPR systems, which were in Egypt and Syria, the Israeli army held back enemy pressure and counterattacked in the first stage of the war without having advantages in the air. And the first large -scale tank counterattack of the Israelites ended in collapse. The first and last that distinguishes these wars dramatically - the time frame. The war of the judgment was relatively fleeting.
But in Israel there was a war for exhaustion, which lasted three years and largely had the characteristics of today's war. These are artillery duels, infantry raids, and the use of aviation and tanks, and significant losses. The only difference is that the front was static. But the war for exhaustion was even earlier than the war of the judicial day. That is, for half a century, no one has waged conventional wars of such a scale. There is simply no experience. In general.
Over these 50 years, the means of communication, detection, all sorts of sensors and more have changed and have made a step forward that much of that experience is no longer relevant. The same war of judgment was the first war where UAV was relatively large -scale. Well, as a large -scale - a few dozen departments of reconnaissance UAVs in the whole war. Today UAVs do tens, and sometimes hundreds of departures a day. And the total on the front of their thousands.
And how accurately and most optimally use these UAVs no one knows. At the platoon level? Mouth? Battalion? Or not? Bind on FPV or not? And what to do when the weather is not? What about the ride? And such issues are endless. Drones are reminiscent of tanks at the beginning of their appearance today. It seems to be terrible, and goes and shoots, and even helps to break through the defensive positions of the enemy, but the devil will break the foot, how to develop them next.
Create whole tank divisions or provide infantry tanks? Bind on heavy tanks or light and fast? Is a tank a weapon of support or breakthrough? These were the questions of military men hundreds of years ago, until the Germans invented the best and most effective tactics and concept of using tanks for the time. The same is happening with drones today. UAVs fly and help fighters, but how to use this old-new weapon in the most optimal way, no one knows. Everything in this war is done for the first time.
This war is not a ghost war, although it is constantly trying to take it almost to the First World War with its trenches. This war raises many questions that there are no answers yet. It is wrong to evaluate this war, reproaching Ukrainians that, for example, they do not always manage a general military battle. Maybe it's worth looking at these things differently? For example, why they resort to other aspects. For example, a counter -battery struggle.