惩罚时代的火力操控

MAY 2025Operational Fires in the Age of PunishmentBy:Benjamin Jensen and Jose M.Macias IIIFor over a century,military professionals have treated operational fires as the backbone of modern campaignsshaping the battlefield,degrading enemy formations,and setting the conditions for maneuver.But what happens when that logic breaks down?What if long-range strikes become less about shaping operations and more about shaping narrativesused not to support a ground advance but to terrorize civilians and coerce political outcomes?That is the story emerging from Russias war in Ukraine.Despite inheriting a military doctrine steeped in deep battle,reconnaissance-strike complexes,and precision noncontact warfare,Russia has consistently failed to employ operational fires in a way that reflects this legacy.Instead,firepower has become unmoored from maneuver.Russian missile salvos and loitering drone attacks increasingly appear to serve a punitive,strategic coercion logic rather than a campaign to dislocate Ukrainian defenses or synchronize effects across domains.Chaos reigns along an extended front line defined by human wave attacks,thousands of small first-person view(FPV)drones,and artillery fire