{"id":132067,"date":"2021-12-09T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/could-russian-combat-robots-achieve-victory-without-heavy-casualties"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:44:20","slug":"could-russian-combat-robots-achieve-victory-without-heavy-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/could-russian-combat-robots-achieve-victory-without-heavy-casualties","title":{"rendered":"Could Russian Combat Robots Achieve Victory Without Heavy Casualties?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-russian-combat-robots-achieve-victory-without-heavy-casualties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Russia ramps up preparations for a possible assault on Ukraine, President Biden <a aria-label=\"has ruled out sending U.S. troops\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/08\/politics\/biden-putin-us-troops\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/08\/politics\/biden-putin-us-troops\/index.html\">has ruled out sending U.S. troops<\/a>, but an invasion would still face serious resistance and Ukraine\u2019s defense minister <a aria-label=\"promising a 'bloody massacre'\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/07\/europe\/oleksiy-reznikov-ukraine-russia-interview-intl\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/07\/europe\/oleksiy-reznikov-ukraine-russia-interview-intl\/index.html\">promising a \u2018bloody massacre\u2019<\/a> if Russia invades. While Ukraine is heavily outmatched by Russian forces, the <a aria-label=\"threat of heavy casualties\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2021\/12\/06\/for-the-russians-crossing-ukraines-trenches-could-be-a-bloody-grind\/?sh=646eff5e3ab2\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2021\/12\/06\/for-the-russians-crossing-ukraines-trenches-could-be-a-bloody-grind\/?sh=646eff5e3ab2\">threat of heavy casualties<\/a> is one which Russian cannot ignore. This is why uncrewed systems \u2013 remote-controlled robot warriors \u2013 could play an important part where the fighting is heaviest.<\/p>\n<p>Soviet Russia shrugged off mass casualties, with Stalin remarking, \u201cOne death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.\u201d During World War II \u2013 the Great Patriotic War to Russians \u2013 the Soviet Union lost more than <a aria-label=\"8 million members of its armed forces\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/students-teachers\/student-resources\/research-starters\/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/students-teachers\/student-resources\/research-starters\/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war\">8 million members of its armed forces<\/a>, 20 times as many as the United States. Names like Stalingrad became legendary for bloody battles and tough resistance regardless of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Modern Russia is very different. Unlike Stalin, President Putin cannot ignore public opinion, and his media machine will hide or <a aria-label=\"deny Russian casualtie\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-russia-hides-its-dead-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-russia-hides-its-dead-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine\">deny Russian casualtie<\/a>s in foreign operations. Mercenaries are increasingly used to keep conflict at arm\u2019s length, as the loss of contractors does not play so badly in the motherland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Russia ramps up preparations for a possible assault on Ukraine, President Biden has ruled out sending U.S. troops, but an invasion would still face serious resistance and Ukraine\u2019s defense minister promising a \u2018bloody massacre\u2019 if Russia invades. While Ukraine is heavily outmatched by Russian forces, the threat of heavy casualties is one which Russian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}