The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) have compared the Russia-Ukraine battlefield to a “real-world laboratory” for testing new methods of military conflict. In the current landscape, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen urged NATO to recognise that they were in a “hybrid war” with Russia while NATO has begun to mobilise a military operation in response to Russian drone sightings across Europe.

This report looks at how war has evolved across time to understand how the role of soldiers is always changing and what that means for today’s troops.