The Russia-Ukraine war has lasted for almost 2 years, and the war has basically entered a phase of stalemate. Russia is not able to launch a major offensive, and Ukraine does not have the strength to organize a large-scale counterattack.
Except for a few confrontational battles, both sides of the war have entered a trench warfare mode similar to that of the First World War, and neither dared to rashly attack on a large scale, and only used drones and artillery to drop cold bombs and fire cold artillery.
So someone commented that this war,There was no torrent of steel, no carpet bombing, no missile scrubbing, no large-depth assault, only a group of soldiers with no fighting spirit who planted mines, dug trenches, squatted in pits, and threw toy airplanes at each other, thus losing all the face of military science and technology in the 21 st century.
Looking back at the Gulf War and the Iraq War in those years, the US military was so majestic and unstoppable, and in the face of the Iraqi army, which is known as the third in the world, the US imperialist army was like a god descending from heaven to earth.
In 1991, the U.S.-led multinational force launched the Gulf War against IraqIn the war, the US military for the first time put a large number of high-tech *** into actual combat, demonstrating overwhelming air and electromagnetic superiority.
The U.S.-led multinational force numbered 690,000 (74 percent of whom were U.S. troops); 3,700 tanks, including 2,000 in the United States; 5,600 armored vehicles; 1,740 combat aircraft, including 59 American F-117A** fighters and 40 B-52 bombers; 247 warships, 9 aircraft carriers.
The total strength of the Iraqi army is 77 divisions and about 1.2 million men. At the same time, it has strengthened the deployment of troops in the Kuwait theater, deploying a total of 42 divisions with about 540,000 people and 5,600 tanks, 7,500 armored vehicles, 3,800 artillery pieces, and 770 combat aircraft according to the three lines of defense.
In this war, the number of Iraqi troops was about 100,000 (of which 20,000 died), 860,000 people were captured, 324 aircraft, 3,847 tanks, 1,450 armored vehicles, 2,917 artillery pieces, 143 ships, and direct economic losses amounted to $200 billion.
On the Multinational Force** 4,232 personnel, of which 148 U.S. troops were killed, 458 were wounded in combat, 138 were killed in non-combation, and 2,978 were injured in non-combat. Other multinational forces suffered 192 killed and 318 wounded. The U.S. military lost 56 aircraft (68 in total), 35 tanks, and 2 ships.
In other words, the Western armies led by the United States fought a terrifying 23:1 ratio in this war.
In the 2003 Iraq War, the United States once again played a beautiful ratio by virtue of its leading military equipment and intelligence superiority.
In this war, 7,600-10,800 people were killed on the side of the Iraqi army, while the number of American troops killed in the Iraq war was 262, of whom 139 were killed in action and 123 died in accidents.
Such a first-class ratio is like a war between industrial civilization and agricultural civilization.
However, why is it that more than 20 years later, human military science and technology have continued to develop for so many years, and as the perennial second on the list of global military strength, why did Russia not launch a devastating offensive like the United States did back then?
Why are there no all kinds of precision-guided missiles to scrub the ground, all kinds of stealth fighters to bomb, and satellites to spy on intelligence 24 hours a day?
Does the Russian-Ukrainian war belong to rookies pecking at each other?
On the contrary, the February ** dynamic incentive plan The Russia-Ukraine war is the most technological and high-level war worthy of reference by major powers so far this century.
The high level of this war is manifested in a number of ways.
1. High-level mobilization.
With this volume, this mobilization rate, there is no larger frame of reference in this century. It is even possible to boldly guess that the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain are not able to achieve this kind of mobilization rate at all.
So far, Ukraine has lost 500,000-600,000 people on the battlefield, while the total number of troops mobilized by the Ukrainian side exceeds 1 million.
For a pre-war country with a population of about 40 million, the scale of such mobilization was enormous.
The Russian side has conscripted hundreds of thousands of soldiers one after another without carrying out a full mobilization, strictly respecting the pre-war laws, and without sending conscripts to the front, which is also unique in a large country.
2. High-level economic self-sustainability.
Any major country that wants to implement a wartime economy must learn from the experience of Russia and Ukraine with an open mind, even if it is Ukraine, even if it is supported by foreign aid, it is also a valuable experience of human organization to maintain the degree of organization in such an economic environment.
Since Russia launched the war against Ukraine, the West has imposed unprecedented economic and financial sanctions on Russia, imposed comprehensive sanctions on oil and natural gas exports, the pillar of Russia's economy, banned the import and export of various Russian commodities, froze Russia's foreign exchange reserves of more than $300 billion, and kicked Russia out of the financial payment systemIt can be said that all the sanctions that the West can think of have been used against Russia.
However, under such sanctions, Russia's economy has not collapsed, society has not fallen into chaos, and the lives of most citizens have remained basically stable.
On the Ukrainian side, although it is completely dependent on Western aid financially and militarily, Ukraine has not fallen into chaos, and has fought back and forth with Russia in the war, and there has not been the kind of one-sidedness that many people thought at the beginning of the war.
This kind of self-sustaining power says two thingsFirst, the various sanctions imposed by the United States are not as powerful as imagined, and second, the ability of human beings to find solutions in the face of desperate situations is greater than imagined.
3. High-level infantry warfare.
On a front of more than 1,000 kilometers, Russia and Ukraine have developed the latest three-dimensional new tactics of infantry + guided artillery fire + UAVs, which is definitely the world's leading version.
The communication links on the 1,000-kilometer front between the two sides alone that have no blind spots can deliver precision strikes in a few minutes anytime, anywhere, far more than all wars after World War II, and there are certainly only a handful of war entities in the world that can do this.
Dropping bombs by drones seems simple, but behind them is the latest scientific and technological development achievements of this century, including satellite communication, AI image recognition, precision guidance, and so on.
Many technological innovations brought about by the information-based industrial revolution were used for the first time in the Russia-Ukraine war, such as the Internet, financial warfare, drones, Starlink, and hypersonic missiles were used on a large scale for the first time. Whether on land, in the air or at sea, it has been confirmed that war, guided by new technologies, is very different from the wars of 1991 and 2003.
Such a war is watched by all military observers and military researchers all over the world.
This war would be a rehearsal for all the great powers to come.