"Mass matters": the US Army brings important lessons from the war in Ukraine - the media

According to journalists, except the United States, no ally in NATO has stocks of armored vehicles and ammunition, which would be enough for even a few months the same in terms of war as in Ukraine. The US Army and NATO allies draw conclusions from the war in Ukraine. First of all, it concerns the scale of battles and weapons that are needed for hostilities. The director of the Strategic Initiative of Scooukrophya Andrew Michta told this in an article for Atlantic Council.

According to him, the United States has been "planned wars" for many years, which were characterized by controls in many industries, unconditional logistics. However, the Americans have now changed the expectations that the military needed a better readiness for hostilities. The main harm, as the expert noted, is that the mass is still important.

Yes, in addition to the United States, no ally in NATO has so many armored vehicles and ammunition to wage at least a few months of a war that could be compared to the scale of the war in Ukraine. According to the analyst, the invasion of Russia in Ukraine should put an end to "obsession" with high -precision blows that dominate the culture of defense procurement of the United States.

"This war has attracted attention to the eternal truth of the war: in the conflict between the states, mass prevails over accuracy," Michta said. He noted that the impact of the mass is felt almost immediately and fixes at the point of contact of the two armies. But the high -precision blows of the enemy deep in the rear give results only over time. The battlefield may have time to expand by that moment.

"The United States should take the old principles of mass that paved the way to victory in World War II and enabled them to successfully restrain them and, after all, defeat the Soviet Union during the Cold War," Dream said. Recall that the media wrote that the US tests are undergoing a new winged nuclear rocket. The US Air Force has already conducted 9 trials. Much of the LRSO missile information is classified, but it is known that mass production issues should be resolved in 2027.