{"id":34430,"date":"2026-06-09T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34430"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:08:42","slug":"war-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34430","title":{"rendered":"War has changed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;I have been closely following the war in Ukraine since it started and it looked like Ukraine was balancing on a knife&#8217;s edge as Russia threw wave after wave of tanks and &#8220;meat assaults&#8221; at them but then things started to change after the war dragged on&#8230;Ukraine embraced a new kind of warfare that had never been seen before, anchored on the use of inexpensive drones to take out the tanks and soldiers on the Russian side&#8230;and as time has gone on, Ukraine has become less dependent on other countries technology and has built a drone industry that is so innovative that countries around the world are studying how they are doing it&#8230;and the industry they have built is going to supply them with a million or more drones this year of all sorts&#8230;long, short, and medium range drones Ukraine is using to attack Russian infrastructure that is used to support the war&#8230;and just in the past few days, Ukraine has attacked supply lines from Crimea that Russia needs to support their armies and essentially shut them down and it appears that Russia has no answer to it&#8230;so this is a new kind of war when a 10,000 dollar drone can destroy a 20 million dollar tank with no danger to the operators of those drones&#8230;it looks like Russia has no defense to this new kind of war and I&#8217;ll bet they will lose by the end of the year&#8230;yeah, I know that&#8217;s bold but they have already started to withdraw their armies they can&#8217;t supply&#8230;good riddance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have been closely following the war in Ukraine since it started and it looked like Ukraine was balancing on a knife&#8217;s edge as Russia threw wave after wave of tanks and &#8220;meat assaults&#8221; at them but then things started to change after the war dragged on&#8230;Ukraine embraced a new kind of warfare that had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War has changed&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4603,3915],"class_list":["post-34430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-russia-is-losing","tag-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34431,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions\/34431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}