Battlefield lessons

Lessons from Ukraine

The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield

But mass still counts, argues Shashank Joshi in the first of seven chapters of a special report on the future of warfare

Electronic warfare

The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams

Jamming is knocking drones and missiles out of the sky

Military logistics

Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals

Russia’s invasion shows how war can hinge on logistics

Total war

Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war

Another chapter in our special report on the future of warfare considers the big legal questions raised by the fusion of civilian and military activity

Russian adaptation

How Ukraine’s enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly

Russia is also absorbing lessons from the war

Naval warfare

How oceans became new technological battlefields

Ukraine has repelled the Black Sea Fleet. But naval drones may not be enough to defeat it

Best practice

Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine

Ukraine is teaching armies to think, train and plan differently

Battlefield lessons

Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine

Inside our correspondent’s investigation into the future of war

Warfare after Ukraine

Sources and acknowledgments