Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities

If there&#x27;s anything I&#x27;ve learned from the conflict in Ukraine, as well as 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, it is that small-explosives drone usage has become a first-class citizen weaponry &#x2F; tactic against ground troops. There&#x27;s a daily stream of footage from Ukraine, where you see Russian ground troops getting bombed by DIY drones dropping grenades &#x2F; mortar rounds &#x2F; etc.<p>Drones are also becoming invaluable tools as forward observers for artillery and mortar fire.<p>I&#x27;m in the National Guard, and I feel that in any modern combat - we&#x27;d just be sitting ducks.

If heavy defenses are placed in cities, those cities will be destroyed by artillery fire. That&#x27;s just how war works. In WW2, when the French were overwhelmed, their government admitted defeat, rather than take up positions in civilian areas (for the most part).

Citizens should be re-learning how to survive sieges.<p>The end of abundance is here is many more ways than I could have ever imagined. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;24&#x2F;macron-warns-of-end-of-abundance-as-france-faces-difficult-winter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2022&#x2F;aug&#x2F;24&#x2F;macron-warns-o...</a>

&gt; Indiscriminate Russian barrages have destroyed not only Mariupol, Severodonetsk and many smaller towns in Ukraine, but also Grozny in Chechnya and Aleppo in Syria.<p>&gt; The city doesn’t exist any more,” said Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, in April.

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