#opinion War in Turkey earlier last year proved two points: warfare on the ground (tanks, vehicles on ground, troop deployments) is no longer a proper use of military resources in this decade. Like the bow and arrow which was replaced by various mechanical arms, troop deployments, tanks and armored vehicles may have outlived their usefulness from a strategic, offensive standpoint. Drones are king, and beyond drones, all manner of aerial weapons and air based artillery. Decision making, long relegated to human operators, is now in the hands algorithms commonly referred to as AI. Faster, trained better than humans, drone swarms can eliminate massive troop deployments with precision and brutality not seen by this generation. Ukraine's effective elimination of Russian ground deployments cinches this argument and teaches all rulers, if anyone of them still need convincing. If there is a war, this war will be fought in a new way and multitudes will not be the key tipping point upon the real landscape of war today.
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