Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced a reckoning across modern militaries. The character of war is shifting at a pace that legacy training systems cannot match. Dispersion, specialisation, and speed now define the battlefield. Small, agile units equipped with drones, sensors, and precision fires routinely deliver effects that once required brigades. Yet many armed forces still train as if mass and heavy armour were the decisive factors.
The gap between how wars are fought and how warfighters are prepared is widening, and the consequences are becoming harder to ignore.
A recent Wall Street Journal commentary by Jillian Kay Melchior captured this tension vividly. During a major alliance exercise in Estonia in May 2025, a small opposing force of Ukrainian soldiers, battle-hardened and fluent in drone-enabled tactics, neutralised the equivalent of two NATO battalions in a single day.
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