• username_1@programming.devEnglish
    17·
    10 days ago

    I don’t think that difference is THAT big. I’m sure a Great War era soldier would have accommodated to the modern drone war in no time. Rifle? Yeah, it just have an automatic fire mode nowadays, but the principle is the same. Trenches? Yeah, trenches! Artillery? Less artillery, but with addition of missiles and drones, so 20 km from the frontline isn’t safe anymore, but the principle is the same.

    Slightly more differences for high officers, but those are working with maps and less affected to those differences.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Yeah, same thought here. Even if we reach back to the American Civil War, aside from mechanization, a professional soldier from that era might not find it too much different. The fire support, like cannons, are now usually a dozen miles away (or airborne), but a tank isn’t too distinctively different from an armored traincar, and really the biggest confusion might be the lack of high mobility forces like cavalry.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    Or maybe not. The current war turned out the way it is because of its specific conditions. Doesn’t mean the next one will be like that.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      The current war turned it the way it is because of its specific conditions. Doesn’t mean the next one will be like that.

      You know, that aaaalmost sounds like something that happens literally every single time with literally every single thing in literally every single place.

      Or you know, tanks are really obsolete this time. Probably one of those.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        That was my point. People are always going on about how every war will be a drone war from here on out. The thing is, nobody knows what the next war will be like. Least of all me, of course.