As U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson put it in 1917, "Truth is the first victim of war."
In this war, the intensity is not high, the Russian army is dominant, but according to the Ukrainian side, at least seven Russian major generals and a lieutenant general were killed, which has attracted the attention of many experts.
In fact, if you consider the number of Russian troops and the scale of the war, it is impossible to have eight or nine generals killed, unless the Russian army has now been completely destroyed. In fact, the Russians were not defeated.
Let's assume that even if not so many generals were killed, the casualties of Russian generals were not small. Because the Russian army is one of the only three troops in the world that requires battalion commanders to charge forward.
Of course, because of the difference in the rank system, the major generals of the Russian army are very different from other countries. The Russian army did not have colonels and no brigadier generals, but there were marshals and generals, that is, the generals of the Russian army were somewhat inflationary.
We should see that it is precisely because of the improvement of informationization and the flattening and intellectualization of the army organization that the importance of the generals in the entire operation is also rising.
In ancient times, especially in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, generals were killed, dragons were leaderless, and soldiers were defeated. (This is not the case), but at this time, especially in the battalion-level battle group style, the commander of the major general, although still important, can no longer affect the course of the campaign.
It is generally believed that the Ukrainian army may have received information support from NATO, can accurately find and lock in the main generals of the other side, and achieve small cost and big gains. Therefore, we will start from here and discuss the issue of informationization on the battlefield.
Mobile phone software allows the rebel army to take the first rank of the general such as probing the bag to retrieve objects?
According to Russian media reports, Pali, the deputy commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in charge of military and political work, was killed in a battle near Mariupol, Ukraine, in recent days. Colonel Pali was allegedly operating in the peaceful corridor responsible for civilian evacuation at the time, and the cause of his death may have been related to Ukrainian shelling or snipers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency has a military intelligence group specializing in collecting information on senior Russian officers, which is dedicated to tracking the whereabouts of the commanders of the Russian forces involved in the war and the location of the headquarters. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, NATO's approximately 10 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, battlefield surveillance and intelligence-gathering aircraft, and military satellites have scanned Russian military dynamics in Ukraine around the clock, with Ukraine receiving real-time intelligence from the Pentagon and NATO. When nato reconnaissance aircraft obtain new information, they quickly decipher it, then locate it by satellite and transmit it to Ukrainian ground forces. At the same time, the U.S. cyber warfare forces were also involved, responsible for infiltrating the Russian military's classified communication system. The important operational information obtained by the Russian army was shared with the Ukrainian side.
It is said that a certain country has provided a mobile phone software for Uzbekistan, calling on ordinary people and soldiers to download, no matter where the other side's soldiers and weapons are found, they will take pictures and upload them. Whether this news is true or not, it does have a certain feasibility, but the gadget of "shooting with your hands" is not high-tech at all in the mainland.
According to Wired, online detectives on the Ukrainian side used facial recognition technology to identify Russian soldiers in five minutes through screenshots alone. Reuters reported that the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology. Clearview founders say his startup has more than 2 billion photos from Russian social media service VKontakte, and the database of these photos totals more than 10 billion photos.
At the same time, not long after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War, MIT immediately announced that it had severed its research partnership with a private scientific research institute in Moscow, Russia. According to the Boston Globe, the Russian research institute, called the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, which studies artificial intelligence, energy, nuclear energy, biomedicine and space, has previously discovered and quantified the underlying functional flaws of Google's widely used quantum algorithm technology.
Therefore, many people believe that on the battlefield of informationization, the role of generals is not as good as before, but it is easy to be killed, and there are indeed too many places to change in the military rank system in the future.
Information and public opinion warfare has become the main front, and short video live broadcasts have become popular
There are many strange places in this war, such as the absence of power outages and network disconnections that everyone thought were inevitable, and even the Russian soldiers found the other side in the city viewing with the city camera, and did not smash the camera, but only twisted the camera to the side.
The bigger change is that netizens all over the world are constantly paying attention to the changes in the battlefield on new media, and the ukrainian people and soldiers seize every opportunity to shoot videos for live broadcasting, which is also a form of information digital battlefield.
There is also a new thing in the history of war, the two armies are fighting to the death on the battlefield, on the other hand, the representatives of the two countries are negotiating through online video, and the two do not delay.
Although the development of Internet technology and the popularity of short videos have further promoted the process of modern warfare to "have no concealment", it has also provided space for countries to use "propaganda", "false intelligence" and "psychological offensives" to seek battlefield advantages. The biggest difference between this Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the previous one is that information warfare has evolved from simply releasing news to fighting for control of public opinion on the global Internet.
In addition, the main leaders of one side can go to give video speeches or post some short videos that boost morale. Recently, one of the hot topics in foreign social media is the authenticity of the video of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy's speech. Many netizens are questioning whether the videos released by Zelenskiy in the past two times were filmed in front of the green screen.
Information security and anti-reconnaissance are becoming more and more advanced
On the battlefield, information warfare is also everywhere. On the one hand, the relevant parties should use information as much as possible to identify each other's goals, and on the other hand, they should try to hide their own strategic value goals. Because of the improvement of information capabilities, the struggle between reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance is also escalating.
For example, it is said that a Russian convoy was very close to Kiev, winding for more than 60 kilometers, without moving for several days, and later some military vehicles ran into the woods and were bombed by Ukrainian forces quite easily and undefended. In fact, this is likely to be a false target for NATO's reconnaissance satellites.
We believe that in this fleet, there should be real various transport vehicles, and there should also be many fake target inflatable props, all of which are created to adapt to the current satellites, drones and other information tools.
Communication networks and satellite communications are everywhere
It is understood that Xiaomi originally planned to hold a local conference of Redmi Note11 in Ukraine on February 25, and carried out a comprehensive publicity warm-up for the arrival of this product, but the arrival of the war interrupted this plan.
According to the data, Ukraine and mobile phones are also quite related, in 1973 to develop the first mobile phone of one of the Motorola engineers Martin Cooper, is a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine. However, it was not until 1992 that the Ukrainian mobile phone market was opened with the establishment of Vodafone Ukraine.
There is also a problem, around Musk's starlink plan, netizens have also launched a hot discussion, and even many people have blown this Internet system to the gods, in fact, these people do not know how big the satellite is, nor can they distinguish what is a reconnaissance satellite, what is a communication satellite, what is a navigation satellite, thinking that throwing a ball can do everything.
On February 26, local time, Tesla CEO and founder of space exploration technology (SpaceX) Musk said that his company's "StarLink" service system has been launched in Ukraine, and Ukraine can use broadband services through the running "StarLink" satellite. On March 1, Beijing time, the Kiev region of Ukraine received as many as one truckload of Starlink terminals from SpotX, and the initial estimate of the number of Starlink terminals in place was about 150.
However, in fact, the authenticity of this message is doubtful, this terminal is not a mobile phone, because so far, Starlink satellites only accept terminals, that is, WIFI.
It is said that in order to deal with the communication network problems caused by the war, several operators in Ukraine have given up the competitive relationship between them and begun to build and share a comprehensive construction and co-repair.
On March 11, local communication services were affected by an attack on a facility at Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest Internet access provider and mobile operator in the city of Akhterka. Kyivstar's problem was that all the staff in the city of Akhtorka had been dispatched to repair the line and had to draw personnel from nearby Poltava to "support".
Ukraine has several Internet access service providers and telecom operators, and in normal times there is fierce competition between them, but during the war they not only shared the network, but even shared employees. Since the outbreak of conflict, telecom operators are no longer "going their own way", especially Kyivstar, Vodafone and Lifecell, which repair each other's damaged base stations, and even if one operator's network is damaged, its customers can seamlessly switch to other operators' networks.