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To examine how emerging military technologies interact with force employment and organizational adaptation to shape operational outcomes in the Russia–Ukraine war.

August 16, 2026Defence Studies

A Janus-faced war: exploring the role of technology in shaping outcomes in the Russia–Ukraine conflict

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WCWarren ChinAcademy of Public Administration

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates that technological innovation fosters lethal attritional warfare rather than decisive maneuver in modern conflict, highlighting the importance of force employment.

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To examine how emerging military technologies interact with force employment and organizational adaptation to shape operational outcomes in the Russia–Ukraine war.
Applied Stephen Biddle’s theory of military power to assess operational and tactical battlefield dynamics.
Evaluated the operational effects of drones, satellite intelligence, digital command networks, and artificial intelligence under physical and cognitive combat constraints.
Advanced technologies fail to enable decisive, information-led maneuver on their own, instead generating an information-saturated, highly lethal environment of attritional warfare.
Offensive action remains feasible only under narrow, temporary conditions due to a synthesis of fortified mass firepower, dense sensing, and networked precision strikes.

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Warren Chin (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817a4cf2fb91fc834adf40 https://doi.org/10.1080/14702436.2026.2715485

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates that technological innovation fosters lethal attritional warfare rather than decisive maneuver in modern conflict, highlighting the importance of force employment.

A Janus-faced war: exploring the role of technology in shaping outcomes in the Russia–Ukraine conflict

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A Janus-faced war: exploring the role of technology in shaping outcomes in the Russia–Ukraine conflict

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