La importancia de la capacidad militar para desarrollar algoritmos en el combate y luego usarlos de manera efectiva, combinada con la voluntad de cambiar la doctrina y las t\u00e1cticas para anticipar y destruir las fuerzas enemigas, pueden ser las lecciones m\u00e1s importantes de la guerra de Ucrania. Por otro lado, seg\u00fan RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), la tasa de p\u00e9rdida de los UAV ucranianos en este momento es de unos 10.000 UAV al mes, en gran parte como resultado de la EW rusa.<\/p>\n
LANPAC \u2014 The importance of a military\u2019s ability to write algorithms at the edge of battle and then use them effectively, combined with a willingness to change doctrine and tactics to anticipate and destroy enemy forces, may be the biggest lessons of the\u00a0Ukraine war<\/a>, a key leader of the US Army\u2019s XVIII Airborne Corps said last week.<\/p>\n The formidable forces of Russia were expected to sweep across Ukraine in a few short weeks. While Ukrainian forces wobbled in the first days of war they\u00a0quickly began to adapt<\/a>\u00a0and use new tactics, techniques and procedures, getting inside the unchanging Russian decision-making process, TJ Holland, Command Sgt. Major of the XVIII Airborne Corps noted at the recent LANPAC conference in Honolulu.<\/p>\n He compared the situation\u00a0to the start of World War II, where many experts thought France possessed one of the world\u2019s best armies, a force that could stand up to German aggression. But Germany mounted a relatively small number of FM radios on its land vehicles and changed the speed of decision making, allowing the Nazis to overcome French forces in a remarkable six weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cUkraine\u2019s using data right now as effectively and efficiently as the Germans used FM radio,\u201d Holland said. \u201cAnd they\u2019re able to mass effects at the most decisive point in time to achieve their operational advantage, because they\u2019re making decisions faster than the Russians can, because the Russians \u2014 guess what, like the French \u2014 they\u2019re stuck in their way of war.\u00a0And that\u2019s a really great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Key to moving men and materiel \u2014 massing effects \u2014 is the ability to gather and use data. Ukraine, with its innovative use of the commercial\u00a0Starlink satellite system<\/a>, coordination with the United States and other NATO allies, is proving to be an innovative user in that regard.<\/p>\n \u201cI can touch any army that\u2019s holding that key piece of terrain from anywhere in the world,\u201d the command sergeant major said. \u201cI can influence them with data, right? I don\u2019t have to be in the same hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n Much of that is due to algorithms written by US and allied troops, Holland said. One was written for a commander who wanted to understand counter-battery fire between Russia and Ukraine. \u201cThat same algorithm showed us actually, we know the Russian way of war. So now we know if they\u2019re posturing for a counter offensive, or they\u2019re pausing and reinforcing. Or what they\u2019re about to do next, another operation based off counter battery fires,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve learned through that and we\u2019ve iterated and we\u2019ve been able to write more code and more algorithms that can only happened when we have, you know, we have great young men and women that wear this uniform that are on the edge and do those great things.\u201d<\/p>\n That kind of data is absolutely vital to resupply for crucial items. Knowing how much ammunition you\u2019ve used, where you can get more and how quickly you can move it. Knowing the best ways to move troops in and out of the front lines as they grow weary. Knowing how many drones you\u2019ve used and where and when you can get more has been especially important for the Ukrainians, who depend on them for reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance.<\/p>\n \u201cThe loss rate for\u00a0Ukrainian UAVs<\/a>\u00a0at the moment is about 10,000 UAVs a month,\u201d Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said at LANPAC. (RUSI is an independent British think tank.)<\/p>\n Watling had only left Ukraine 10 days before the conference. \u201cThat\u2019s the level of equipment that both sides are going through. And so when you\u2019re in that environment, that frenetic activity at the front, your people get tired. You know, you have to rotate them out of the line. But every time you rotate them back and you push more people forward, you expose them to fire because they\u2019re now out of the protections provided by their defensive positions.\u201d<\/p>\n Managing all that requires masses of data that must be shared quickly and effectively. The problem isn\u2019t new \u2014 consider the vast logistics of World War I when men and mountains of supplies were moved across Europe by trains. But the speed of data introduces new challenges and opportunities, as the Ukrainians have shown.<\/p>\n Key to making that possible through the stress of combat is managing the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum (EMS). This isn\u2019t necessarily about some frequencies being jammed in particular areas, Watling said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere you have real massive friction is the uncertainty that is generated by a catch-all and continuous\u00a0disruption in the EMS<\/a>, because then I don\u2019t know whether my orders go through. I don\u2019t know what the latency is going to be between me launching a UAV and the off-boarding of the data from it. Therefore, it\u2019s very difficult to plan, synchronize, coordinate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n