The Industrial Base Is the Real Order of Battle

It is a truism among planners that amateurs study tactics and professionals study logistics, and the current fighting bears it out. The side that can move fuel, ammunition, and spare parts to the point of contact reliably will grind down an opponent who wins engagements but cannot sustain them. Watch the supply lines, not the salients.

Drones have collapsed the distance between reconnaissance and strike, and with it the survival time of anything that moves in daylight near the front. The cheap, expendable machine now dictates the tempo, forcing dispersal, concealment, and a constant race between jamming and counter-jamming that no order of battle chart captures.