OSINT Intuit™
🇺🇸🪖 𝗪𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝟰 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 Video of U.S. infantry training in Morocco. Positives: • USV | RCV integration with infantry demonstrates ongoing doctrinal experimentation • Individual soldiers carrying anti-UAV EW packs indicates recognition of the FPV threat environment But the footage also highlights what still appears to be a major blind spot in current infantry training doctrine. Negatives: • Massed formations and linear advances near the point of contact would present ideal targets for FPV operators and artillery observers • Tightly clustered troops remain highly vulnerable to indirect fires • 60mm mortar employment places crews exposed inside the likely FPV engagement envelope • No visible integration of anti-drone kinetic weapons, smooth-bore systems, or dedicated mobile counter-UAS security elements • Maneuvers still appear rooted in assumptions from pre-FPV environments The tactics on display look lifted from North Africa in 1943 and Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Congress this week that the Pentagon has sent U.S. military personnel to Ukraine to study modern drone warfare, including FPV strike operations, deep rear drone attacks, interceptor drones, mobile fire teams, kinetic counter-UAS systems, and battlefield tracking technologies. What was notably absent was any direct mention of away teams integrating with Ukrainian ground combat units to study survival strategies inside an FPV-saturated line of contact which, according to this footage, remains a major blind spot in current infantry training doctrine. The most important lesson from Ukraine is not simply how to employ drones or defend against Shahed-style strikes. It is how difficult it has become to survive once the enemy has persistent surveillance and saturated FPV coverage of the line of contact and near rear. This footage suggests that lesson has still not been fully internalized at the tactical infantry level. I suspect these doctrinal deficiencies likely extend across most NATO ground forces. #OSINT #Ukraine