Special report | Battlefield lessons

Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine

Inside our correspondent’s investigation into the future of war

Shashank Joshi, The Economist’s defence editor, has spent months analysing how technology is reshaping warfare. Artificial intelligence, drones and satellites are increasingly changing the characteristics of war, but old lessons still matter. Here he explores what can be learned from the Ukraine war, which has become a testbed for technologies of the future.

This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine”

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