Sinéad Baker
The UK had assumed trench building and clearing to be quite clean and surgical, an officer who trained Ukrainians said.
But in Ukraine's fight, they're uneven and full of traps.
It has led the UK to rethink its own approach to trench warfare, the officer said.
The trenches in Ukraine are too messy and irregular for the UK's classic "tactically safe" trench-taking methods to work well, a British military instructor told Business Insider.
As the UK leads training for Ukrainian troops fighting against Russia's invasion, it’s finding that parts of Western doctrine don’t hold up, prompting changes to its own training.
Key lessons are in trench warfare. Along the front lines in Ukraine are crisscrossing trench networks reminiscent of the earthworks of World War I battlefields. The West hasn't fought a war like this in a long time.
Maj. Maguire, a British military officer who led part of the Operation Interflex training for Ukrainian troops, told Business Insider that in the British mindset, "we arguably had this idea that trenches were all pretty clean and sort of surgical."
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