The future shape of armed conflict

 The future shape of armed conflict

To start with, drone warfare got a super boost with the prese4ent russian Ukraine conflict.  Mere months ago i speculated on what was obvious and is now real time.

The advent of industrial warfare really meant that all able bodied men could be mobalized and also supported in a fight and that of course meant millions of men.  only then did we get better at the art of war.

Recall that the entire British empire was created using truly modest forces by our present standards.  in fact a field army size had not truly changed forever because they still walked and had to be fed uusing horse support.  So the mass industrial armies of the Civil War was a complete change over.

Off course any opponent was equally constrained.

Today we have citizen armies and the potential of total mobalization.  What is important is that has now been expanded to include able bodied women who can operate drones out of harms way.  to create a perspective, Canada can expect to mobalize 4,000,000 young men who can be progressively trained up to heavy combat status.  We can now add in 4,000,000 young women to be trained up to light combat staus which means operating the drone fleet.  Proper traing however does take time, but this can be obviated with highschool pre training.  

Also most folks of age can be simply processed twice through basic training.  Many should be anyway as this also allows  skills upgrading such as swimming.

What you do not want at all is a massive buy on hardware without a war on the horizon.  We have just been shown that real conflict will see surplus inventories from allies come into the field.  And real drone production can be ramped up quickly.

so suddenly your potential 8,000,000 man force can operate under a multi million drone umbrella able to suppress obsolete hardware.

The huge take home is that the citizen army can transition to scale and be armed fully wth cheap drones and the usual infantry loadout.

And do recall that an operator can bring in a drone swarm to orbit a prime target and then launch kami kazi attacks continously.