There are no advances in warfighting that we can't surpass with just a few tens of thousands of our own casualties to learn from. When a real war comes, the US will eventually get past its military-industrial grift to produce pertinent and winning systems.
Most of what this article says, including the title, remains just as true with "Russia" replaced by "Ukraine".
https://archive.ph/2026.04.21-124107/https://www.nytimes.com...
There are no advances in warfighting that we can't surpass with just a few tens of thousands of our own casualties to learn from. When a real war comes, the US will eventually get past its military-industrial grift to produce pertinent and winning systems.