In 1914, European armies entered a war with forces designed to move. Within months, they were digging themselves into the earth. Ffires from newly introduced machine guns and heavy artillery made movement across exposed ground a proposition far more deadly than in any war that had ever afflicted humanity. More than a century later, armies are confronting an unsettling echo of that experience in Ukraine.Drones and other robotic precision weapons fill the low-altitude airspace, detecting and destroying tanks and other large vehicles that appear anywhere near the Ukrainian front and devastating any attempts at mobile ground offensives by infantry. WesternThe post Achieving Breakthrough: Maneuver Warfare in the Face of Robotic Mass appeared first on War on the Rocks.