""To me, it feels like 80% of the job of an infantryman is exactly the same and probably exactly the same as it was in a Napoleonic era," he said. "You need to be fit. You need to be strong and robust. You need to be able to survive in the field. You need to be able to dig a hole.""
""That hasn't changed," he said. "I doubt it's going to change for a while longer.""
""it doesn't matter how much technology you throw into the field, it doesn't matter how supremely trained your troops are. Sooner or later it ends up as two blokes in a muddy hole, slugging it out with a billhook or a spade.""
The Irish Guards are training intensively to operate with drones after observing heavy drone use in Ukraine and receiving advice from Ukrainian soldiers. The unit expects drones to increase capabilities in reconnaissance, targeting, and battlefield awareness. Most routine infantry duties are projected to stay the same, requiring fitness, strength, field survival skills, and the ability to dig defensive positions. Land combat tends to regress as higher-tech systems are lost or disabled, eventually reverting to dismounted, close-quarters fighting. Drones will augment infantry operations but are unlikely to replace core soldier tasks in the near term.
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