Pakistan, March 22 -- A modern military conflict on an unprecedented scale opened in February 2022 when Russia initiated its full-bore invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine, despite facing Russia's overwhelming military advantages, adapted the fight into siege warfare and, in doing so, turned the war into a war of attrition. It provides a prior essential context in how these technologies work and how effective they are in traditional combat, helping calibrate expectations of their battle potential.

This conflict gives us the first glimpse of what future wars could look like and also how emerging technologies, drones, and artificial intelligence (AI) add to today's battles. As the first major conflict of the "AI age," however, the war in Ukraine r...