Lot’s of armies around the world are going to need to change their tactics, their weapons inventory, and their stockpile of arms.
We are witnessing a wholesale gifting of Soviet era weapons by former Warsaw Pact companies to Ukraine, so that they can buy new more modern weapons.
Modern warfare is going to be a lot more internet of everything oriented with drones, satellites, radio/telephone listening posts intercepting enemy communications, hacking of internet communications, and social media feeding targeting information. It is also going to be much more mobile and less centralized. Further, it will be less about big tanks and big bombers than about lots of smaller weapons delivery platforms.
A couple years ago, the thought of the US Marine Corps giving up its tanks seemed suspect. Now, maybe the same amount of money would be better spent on Javelin missiles, or drones. Warfare has been changed.
My personal hope is the MILSPEC is dead. The regulations that produce $10,000 toilet seats need to give way to mass produced quality products that can be widely distributed on the battle field. I love how many of the downed Russian aircraft have commercial civilian GPS equipment taped to the dashboards.
“A couple years ago, the thought of the US Marine Corps giving up its tanks seemed suspect. Now, maybe the same amount of money would be better spent on Javelin missiles, or drones. Warfare has been changed.”
Warfare changing is “all the hype” as these experts study the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Take it with a grain of salt, my grandmother(1920-2016) and her twin sister(1920-2013) told me about what the American Establishment was “selling them” prior to WW2.
They were telling them the German army and air force were invincible, while the japs couldn’t fly airplanes and had wooden ships and submarines at the bottom of Tokyo Bay.
We got hit at Pearl and our attitudes changed....from propaganda to reality.
I’m not military, I’m a private sector guy who knows zilch about our armed forces.
However, if I could have one type of weapon going into the next big world war:
It would be huge missiles with conventional warheads. Thousands of non nuclear missiles bombarding cities and military targets will make a huge impact.(Super sizing those V-2 rockets that terrorized London at the end of WW2, is what I’m talking about)