Drones, Shi, cyberattacks: What lessons have learned the world in the year of the war in Ukraine

In the war, human will is of great importance, and the digital sphere was a valuable new means of achieving and mobilizing this will. The last year of hostilities in the territory of Ukraine has become a "mastered lesson" for democratic states around the world, which are trying to understand how not only strategies but also technologies will be able to develop. The focus will tell what military analysts expect when it comes to armed conflicts in the future.

The Armed Forces used new technologies that, although not radically affected by the fighting, they became a reference point for tracking the trend of technological development of the MIC, in its column, Military Analytics Peter Singer.

The first thing to talk about is the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI), namely: facial recognition software for identifying Russian soldiers, machine learning algorithms (MN) to improve the efficiency of military and volunteers' logistics, intelligence, and information warfare. "The use of neurotransities of different functionality will gain momentum because the AI ​​is of great importance for society today.

No other area of ​​technologies today is funded as actively as AI and Mn. In the development of neurotromes, national governments and, as a consequence, their armed forces and also Big business, " - says the author. The second important point is that cybersecurity has also become a new front of this war. At the beginning of the conflict, Russian hackers tried to attack various Ukrainian network systems - from power grids to space communications.

But, like the Armed Forces of Russia, they have not succeeded. And here the author sees two main reasons: cyberbitvit also did not radically affect the course of the war, but imagine what a group or military unit that could be more organized, prepared in the future would have to do in the future. Attach such a big goal as the infrastructure of the whole country. "Cyberatians are the future of war.

We are increasingly dependent on the Internet, and it also depends on the devices that now manage operations in almost all sectors of critical infrastructure. Therefore, the goals for hacking also become more. . As a result of the internet of things we rely on, we become very vulnerable. And the attackers use it, "Singer writes. UAVs were used during World War II, in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan and Libya.

But some military experts believed that drones were not so important in the "ordinary" war, keeping in mind that drones are good in point conflicts with terrorists and rebels. "This academic and military dispute is over. Unmanned systems have proven to be incredibly important in hostilities in Ukraine, in different roles and even areas.

They played a crucial role in stopping the columns of Russian tanks, in ensuring high accuracy of Ukrainian artillery and rocket stroke The Russian flagship "Moscow", in the task of striking Russian naval bases in the Crimea, "-the expert emphasizes. Many different systems have filled the battlefield: large expensive UAVs of military level and thousands of small commercial quadcopters.

Both Ukrainian forces and Russian use drones not only for intelligence, but also for the task of shocks, adjusting fire. Thanks to the integration of the AI ​​with the Armed Forces, the AFU is increasingly deploying autonomous systems, using drones and as a barrading ammunition, which operate both alone and swarms. "Drone fights speak of what conflicts will be in the future and how huge the role of unmanned aerial vehicles will be," the expert sums up.

Another area in which the technology that has been used has reached new heights in 2022 is the use of social networks as weapons. "Cyberwar is in mind the evil of networks, but the dipphers -" evil "of people by spreading information through swearing and reposts," the column reads. "In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the information war has reached a new level of strategic importance. " One of the important aspects of the Infoyna was open source -based intelligence.

The Ukrainians have transformed their cell phones and accounts on social networks into a new "Espionage tool", collecting information on crumbs and passing it on to the military. Thanks to Osint, the world learned that Putin was lying when it spoke that Russia had simply responded to an emergency and did not plan an invasion that, as a result, undermined his political strategy.

For their part, the Armed Forces took OSINT data in thousands of locals and Russian non-dealing soldiers, who remove the ticks and issue their location to track the actions of the Russian military. The dissemination of information about what is happening in Ukraine, literally in real time, had a huge influence on a foreign audience. Sympathy to the Ukrainian people has changed the political context and priorities from the United States to Japan and Australia.

The controversy of recent months on the departure of tanks in Ukraine (which eventually happened again because of the change of attitude towards Ukrainians) shows that it took a year to "override" Germany's foreign policy, which she had 75 years. It had a powerful economic effect resolved against Ukraine against Ukraine.

About 400 out of 500 leading companies in the world have left the Russian market (including a large number of IT corporations), and not because they required a law or sanction, but because having a business in Russia means having a bad reputation. This kind of new type of "geopolitical abolition" in the long run will affect both the Russian economy and the fact that other countries think about their economy during the war.

And it can be one of the most significant consequences of the wars of the future, the author is convinced. According to the IMF, the first major conventional conflict of the 21st century in Europe occurred between the 9th and 56th largest economies in the world. The destruction was enormous: from energy markets to supply chains, not only for combatants themselves, but for the whole world.

Russia felt the effect on itself when it was forced to remove microcryps from old refrigerators and washing machines, suspend not only 5G- but also 4G networks, slow down mobile traffic, stay without updating different software, without high quality gadgets and household electronics. "Both in Washington and Beijing now have to rethink the relationships between national and economic security and how they are influenced by wars," Singer emphasizes.