OPS & TACTICS
Where strategy hits the ground.
Ops & Tactics examines how modern conflicts are fought at the operational and tactical level. From urban raids and drone-supported assaults to multi-domain coordination and resistance warfare, this section analyzes the evolving playbook of combat.
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Rubicon is Real: Russia’s Elite Drone Vanguard Enters the Fight
Rubicon isn’t just a drone unit—it’s a battlefield doctrine in motion. From Kursk to Donetsk, it’s turning movement into suicide and logistics into target practice. If this is the future of war, we’re already in it.
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Jammers in the Kill Zone: Ukraine’s Mobile EW Fight for The Donbas
Improvised EW trucks are giving Ukrainian troops a fighting chance against Rubicon’s deep drone hunt. It’s not elegant — it’s survival.
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Making the Night Hostile: Using Cellular Architecture and EW to Counter Shaheds
Russia uses the night and Ukraine’s own cell networks to make Shahed strikes deadly. What if Ukraine made its networks hostile at night and turned the RF environment into a trap?
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The Shahed: Russia’s Cheap Terror Machine
Russia’s Shahed drones aren’t advanced—they’re cheap, relentless, and hard to stop in numbers. Here’s why they’re terrorizing Ukraine and what it means for the fight ahead.
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Spectrum Is Firepower: Winning the Electromagnetic Fight
Spectrum is Firepower” examines how the Ukraine war turned electronic warfare into a frontline fight, why Russia’s advanced EW struggled, and how China is adapting for future LSCO. We break down ATP 3-12.3 insights, real-world battlefield lessons, and what the U.S. and NATO need to prioritize to win the electromagnetic fight before the shooting even…
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Loiter, Lure, Kill: The Rise of Cheap, Smart Munitions
How do $300 FPV drones stack up against million-dollar tanks in Ukraine, and what happens when China scales this model into industrial drone swarms? What updates do ATP 3-21.8, FM 3-90-1, and ATP 3-12.3 need to address the new kill web reality in LSCO?
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Narrative as Weapon: Why the Next War Starts with a Story
We examine how Russia, China, and Iran weaponize stories to shape battlefields before tanks roll, fracturing alliances and influencing policy through disinformation and narrative warfare. It also offers actionable recommendations for doctrine, training, and IO integration so NATO and the U.S. can win in the narrative domain before kinetic operations even begin.
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Signal vs Static: Why EW Operators Are the Unsung Heroes of the Frontline
How ready are we for a fight where the spectrum itself is the battlefield? Ukraine’s war has shown us that electromagnetic superiority is survival, not a luxury—and that your kill chain is only as good as your EW team can protect. Are your training plans ready to move past static to survival?
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Drone-Supported Assaults: A New Model for Combined Arms
We breaks down how Ukraine’s battlefield improvisation with drones has rewritten the playbook for modern warfare. From quadcopters acting as scouts and fire coordinators to FPVs becoming the deadliest tools on the battlefield, this piece explores how combined arms tactics are evolving into decentralized, digital kill nodes. NATO and U.S. forces need to adapt fast—or…
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Dismount or Die: The Infantry Lesson NATO Forgot
“Dismount or Die drills into the brutal reality facing modern mechanized infantry in Ukraine, where dismounted squads are stalked by loitering munitions, drone-dropped grenades, and thermal ISR. This tactics-focused piece explores how NATO forces must re-learn light infantry fundamentals and evolve doctrine to survive under the constant gaze of cheap, deadly aerial threats.
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Concrete and Carnage: Urban Warfare in the Age of Drones and Meat Waves
A deep, boots-on-the-ground case study of modern urban warfare through the lens of Mariupol, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, and Toretsk. This analysis dissects how Ukraine and Russia adapted to the maze of city fighting, what bled each side, and what finally broke the lines—revealing urgent implications for U.S. and NATO ground doctrine. Urban war isn’t coming…
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The Return of Fires: Why Artillery is Again the God of War
From Convoys to Cannonades. The era of maneuver dominance is over—fires are back on top. This article dives deep into how artillery, loitering munitions, and digitized kill chains have become the centerpiece of LSCO, with insights from Ukraine and China’s evolving doctrine.
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Logistics Under Fire: What Ukraine Taught NATO About Resupply in Contested Zones
Logistics Under Fire examines how Ukraine’s battlefield logistics evolved under constant drone and artillery threat, forcing a radical shift to decentralized, front-line sustainment. From foot-borne ammo runs to drone-delivered med kits, this piece unpacks how supply became a combat function — and what NATO must learn before it’s too late. In LSCO today, logistics isn’t…
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Trenches and Tablets: Part III – From FM 3-90 to Mosaic
Part III: From FM 3-90 to Mosaic dives into how traditional U.S. Army doctrine—rooted in linear maneuver and fire support—struggles to keep pace with Ukraine’s battlefield reality. In its place? A dynamic, modular kill web where every unit is a node, and lethality comes from flexibility, not formation.
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Trenches and Tablets: Part II – Kill Chain Compression
Part I: Kill Chain Compression breaks down how Ukrainian forces shrank the traditional sensor-to-shooter process from hours to minutes—turning smartphones, commercial drones, and improvised comms into precision fire networks. This isn’t theory—it’s kill chain innovation under fire, and it’s reshaping the future of LSCO.
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Trenches and Tablets: Digital Lethality in a 20th Century Battlefield
Trenches and Tablets explores how the war in Ukraine forced a fusion between 20th-century terrain warfare and 21st-century digital kill chains—sparking a doctrinal shift on the fly. From compressed kill chains to makeshift tactical comms, and a rewrite of FM 3-90 into a mosaic web of lethal nodes, this series unpacks how hybrid warfare is…