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Russia vs Ukraine could provide invaluable lessons on what truly works in modern warfare

With multiple media reports saying Russia plans to invade Ukraine in the next 48 hours, the chances of avoiding a major conflict between Moscow and Kyiv seem slim. If Russia does start a conflict, it will pit two modernized militaries against each other, with very different tactics: Russia’s traditional military might against more of an insurgent Ukraine. In doing so the conflict, along with incurring with very real human costs, could provide real-world answers for the many questions facing America’s military as it seeks to modernize for the future, writes Mark Cancian of CSIS. A war between two highly developed nation-states like Russia and Ukraine offers the rare opportunity to see how modern weapons work, and more importantly, how they interact in an action/counteraction that is impossible to simulate in peacetime. Are tanks obsolete? Is cyber a game-changer? Unfortunately, with such a war seemingly imminent, military analysts may get a chance to make such assessments ba ....

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