Armenia’s losses in Nagorno-Karabakh in recent weeks and Ukraine’s losses in Donbass in recent years could be a harbinger of mortal danger comparable to the German blitzkrieg in Poland in 1939, which preceded the fall of France in 1940, writes Breaking Defense, citing a statement from an unnamed general. US Army.
The military predicted that today not only new technology is important in conflicts, but also new tactics. “When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, [it was] not new technology that mattered, because everyone had tanks. They all had walkie-talkies. They all had airplanes, but [what mattered was] a new way of combining technology, ”the general said.
The publication writes that “perhaps countries such as Russia or Azerbaijan are mainly armed with weapons from the Cold War, but supplemented by the latest unmanned systems that make all weapons more effective.”
“In Donbas, Russia has used drones to detect Ukrainian targets for rapid and destructive artillery fire. In Nagorno-Karabakh, [Azerbaijani] drones themselves have become a lethal weapon, ”the newspaper claims, assuring that the US army should prepare to counter such threats.
In November, Konstantin Makienko, Deputy Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), commenting on the results of the latest conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, in which, in his opinion, Russia was the loser, said that currently the Armed Forces of Ukraine have weapons systems that Russia does not have. , in particular, third-generation anti-tank missile systems and kamikaze drones.
In the same month, retired Lieutenant General Thomas Sper, currently head of the National Defense Center of the American strategic research institute Heritage Foundation, said that the war in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan provides an opportunity to see what the conflict of the future might look like.
