Desde la proliferaci\u00f3n de sistemas no tripulados hasta el espectro de campos de batalla saturados de guerra electr\u00f3nica , dos a\u00f1os y medio de guerra en Ucrania han ofrecido a los estrategas militares nuevas lecciones sobre c\u00f3mo se libra el combate moderno a gran escala.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 From the proliferation of\u00a0unmanned systems<\/a>\u00a0to the specter of\u00a0electronic warfare-saturated battlefields<\/a>, two-and-a-half years of warfare in Ukraine have offered military strategists new lessons in how modern large-scale combat is fought.<\/p>\n Thousands of miles away from the deadly front lines, US military intelligence officials at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) annual conference were asked last week what lessons they, specifically, have taken away from watching Kyiv\u2019s defense of its homeland against Moscow\u2019s invasion. (An Air Force official had to cancel his appearance on the panel, but several officials\u00a0have spoken before<\/a>\u00a0about the change they\u2019re seeing in aerial warfare.)<\/p>\n \u201cSo listen, it\u2019s easy to sit at the Pentagon thinking you have a great ideas for innovation,\u201d Andrew Evans, the director of the Army\u2019s ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) Task Force said. \u201cBut you know who the best innovators are? The people who have to innovate or they\u2019re going to die the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cbattlefield innovation that\u2019s occurring in Ukraine,\u201d Evans added, \u201cis unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n On The Water: \u2018Pretty Impressive\u2019 Asymmetric, Unmanned Capabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n On paper, Russia\u2019s large naval fleet should have no problem dominating Ukraine\u2019s non-existent Navy. But the war has shown that using smaller, unmanned surface vessels and land-based strikes can hold a traditional navy at risk.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first lesson we got out of there was the importance of anti-ship cruise missile defense, when the Slava got hit,\u201d Director of Naval Intelligence Vice Adm. Karl Thomas said, likely referring to the\u00a0April 2022 sinking<\/a>\u00a0of the Slava-class Moskva, which the US said was hit with Ukrainian Neptune cruise missiles.<\/p>\n As a follow-up to that shocking, symbolic victory, Thomas said, Ukraine went \u201cinto the unmanned world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty clear that the asymmetric capabilities that the Ukrainians \u2014 who didn\u2019t even have a navy \u2014 has been able to levy on the Russians is pretty, pretty impressive,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cQuite frankly you\u2019ve got basically the Russian navy, the Black Sea navy, pinned to the eastern side of the Black Sea because [of] what the Ukrainians are doing with unmanned surface and unmanned underwater capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n Thomas said he\u2019s \u201cexcited\u201d after seeing what Ukraine has been doing with unmanned capabiltiies in the maritime theater, especially the \u201cdirty and dangerous\u201d missions military planners wouldn\u2019t want to risk a crew to do, and how tactics are ever-evolving.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a ton of lessons that we\u2019re pulling down from that, and you can translate into other theaters,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I really like, it\u2019s expensive to build ships, and it takes a long time, and what we have today \u2014 but you might be able to build a lot of little things that don\u2019t cost as much [and have] kind of an outsized effect or help other people have an outsized effect.\u201d<\/p>\n Thomas\u2019 comments echo what Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, America\u2019s top general in Europe,\u00a0said over the summer<\/a>, when he called Ukraine\u2019s ability to counter Russia\u2019s superior navy an \u201carbiter of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n In Space: Commercial Imagery For Intelligence-Infused Diplomacy<\/strong><\/p>\n Sitting next to Thomas, Space Force Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Intelligence Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon said one of the most important lessons of the conflict for him came before hostilities actually broke out, in December 2021 and January 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that another important element of this was remembering \u2026 the significant value that the commercial remote sensing industry played in enabling intelligence, supporting diplomacy,\u201d Gagnon said.<\/p>\n