General Discussion

shock waves through every military establishment and war college on the planet. While the Russians are trying to portray it as a surprise cause for social galvanization to support their illegal aggression against Ukraine, that's not how this attack is comparable to Pearl Harbor's effect on people in the United States.

How it is like Pearl Harbor is that it is causing a rethink of military doctrine. Strategic and tactical analysis of Pearl Harbor led to de-emphasis on battleships and the rise of aircraft carriers and aviation as the focal point of military power and preparedness.

Truckloads of commercially available quad-copters modified to carry ordinance, smuggled deep into enemy territory, destroying an estimated 1/3 of Russia's strategic bomber fleet, focuses the question on how much military battlefield doctrine should rely on the current configuration of tanks, artillery, air defense missile systems, long range bombers, cruise missile systems, and Iron Dome/Golden Dome defense systems.

And the Ukrainians weren't even first with this strategy. Innovative drone usage during the 2020 skirmishes between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh caught the attention of military strategists and analysts across the planet. But it didn't generate the headlines and the popular notoriety that Ukraine's raid has.