War in Ukraine Volume 13

From Cossack wild fields to ground zero of drone warfare: For centuries, the Donbas has served as Europe’s military crucible—through industrial armaments, the Russian Civil War, Soviet supremacy, and the turmoil of the 1990s. Today, this once-forgotten industrial heartland has become the battlefield laboratory where AI, autonomous weapons, and decentralized tactics are redefining modern warfare for the 21st century.

When Belgian industrialists transformed the barren steppe into the Ru…