What can 70 years of war tell us about the Russia-Ukraine conflict

From February 24, 2022 until today, thousands of analyzes have been written about him war her of Russia with the Ukraine, with several talking about revolutionary tactics on the battlefield. Academics, however, argue that this particular war conflict is being conducted exactly according to the rules of war that have been in force for 70 years, that is, after the end of the Second World War.

The columnist of New York Times, Max Fisherspoke to experts who stress that in this war as well, as in the previous ones after 1945, exactly the same resurrected recipe can be found: Media manipulation, propaganda, large-scale heavy fighting, street fighting and destruction of urban infrastructure.

However, every war conflict is unique, as well as the Russia-Ukraine war. So, three key elements emerge, which not only constitute a repetition of history, but may also point to the future on future battlefields.

But now, battles are fought in the familiar conventional mannerwhere large sections of the military clash at once, especially in the cities, since for the most part Ukraine has a lot of urban infrastructure.

The experts therefore consider that the way of fighting does not differ in any way compared to what happened 70 years ago on the battlefields, with the Canadian analyst Stephanie Carvin to typically say that “strategic weapons have not and will not replace armies».

However, what seems to stand out is how the war can be decided to a certain extent by the willingness of each side to negotiatesince it is alleged that the one with the most losses disagrees with the possibility of a truce, which then backfires on him.