As Russia bashes its troops against Ukraine's defensive belt, we seek alternative in maneuver to avoid that bloody fate. War is an all-of-the-above sort of endeavor where three basic forms of ground warfare blend into each other and trade places in what is most possible in any given time and place.
The flavors of ground warfare:
Military Science nerds will inevitably quibble over the above definitions and conceptions. Nevertheless, I think it provides a rough shorthand guide to how these ‘forms’ of warfare are conceived, especially by western militaries on a day-to-day level.
Do read it all. I added my two cents for avoiding stalemate in this Army article based on learning to cope with and overcome attritional warfare on the World War I Western Front to restore maneuver.
Have no doubt that attrition is a part of ground warfare. But it should not be the totality of ground warfare.
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NOTE: Table from the cited article.
