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  🎙️ WAR UPDATE INFOPOD — WHAT DID UKRAINE TEACH MODERN MILITARIES? Day Four of the wider regional tension. One conflict that has already reshaped military thinking is the war between Ukraine and Russia . What did it teach modern armies? Quite a lot. First. Drones are not accessories — they are core weapons. Before 2022, drones were often viewed as support tools. Surveillance. Target marking. Occasional strike capability. Ukraine changed that perception. Low-cost drones became: — Artillery spotters — Precision bomb carriers — Anti-armour tools — Psychological weapons They shifted battlefield visibility. Nothing stays hidden for long anymore. Second. Artillery still dominates. Despite all the talk of cyber and AI, the war reinforced something old: Massed artillery wins ground. Precision matters. But volume matters too. Industrial capacity — ammunition production — became decisive again. Modern war is not just about technology. It is about supply. Th...

  🎙️ WAR UPDATE INFOPOD — WHY DO BIG ARMIES STRUGGLE WITH DRONES AND INSURGENCIES? Day Four of the conflict. A recurring question in modern warfare: Why do large, heavily funded militaries — with advanced aircraft, carriers, satellites — struggle against drones, insurgents, and decentralised defence networks? The answer is structural. First. Big armies are built for big wars. Modern state militaries are designed to defeat other states. They are optimised for: — Air superiority — Armour — Naval dominance — Large-scale manoeuvre warfare But drones and insurgencies operate below that threshold. They are small. Cheap. Distributed. Hard to detect. You cannot bomb a swarm the same way you bomb an airbase. Second. Cost asymmetry. A high-end missile interceptor can cost hundreds of thousands — sometimes millions — of dollars. A weaponised drone can cost hundreds. That economic imbalance matters. If a drone swarm forces a billion-dollar system to activate repeatedl...