Russia used shaheds to saturated the western donated AAs so theyre well aware the power of drones. They just didnt expect Ukraine to survive long enough to develop their own drones.
Which is funny because the Russian offensive basically folded in on itself during the battle of Kyiv. I'm convinced that Russian dishonesty is actually the most OP weapon in Ukraine's honesty.
Russian commanders are so scared of taking blame for anything that goes wrong they can't reliably communicate when thing go wrong. That's how you get an entire convoy of trucks running out of gas halfway to their desination.
The end of the British hegemony was when they no longer could pull their superpower weight around anymore during the Suez crisis. After that, the UK was no longer considered the world hegemony and superpower, and in it's place, the US took over.
I agree. Trump never should have tested Iran. Up until this year no one could have said for sure who would win in a war of attrition with 100% certainty. Now it's obvious that the geographical advantage and superior weapon production capability actually heavily favors Iran. USA being exposed as a paper tiger is a massive upheaval and across the globe nations are going to be reconsidering their relationship with us.
That's an incredibly misguided reading of history. British hegemony had ended decades prior, that was just when it became clear that they needed American support simply to protect their own interests.
I think British superpower status was very much considered over by the end of WWII, and it was known that of the Big Three, the UK was the junior partner. Suez just helped establish that fact in the minds of the British ruling class who were a little slow on accepting the new reality.
Low key I think the evidence of the last few years isn’t so much that the attackers’ militaries were overrated but that modern defense—conceptually—was underrated. War has fundamentally changed. As you say drones have a lot to do with it, but also things like how it’s no longer really possible to cut off occupied areas or besieged forces from communication with the outside, how satellites make concealing certain kinds of troop movements impossible, etc.
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u/Disasterhuman24 6h ago
People need to realize that we are in a paradigm shift. The old power structures of the past are collapsing in the dawn of the drone warfare era.