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WW1 war or attrition ended because the Germans got stuck in Italian snow and realized it was better to crawl than to run over open fields vs machine guns. "Learned" in chain of command way of speaking. The generals noticed that running in snow was impossible, ordered soldiers to crawl and they broke through the line. Then they tried this on the western front and infiltrated the French lines in 2 weeks, which ended the stalemate and revived maneuver warfare again.

This moment has not come in Ukraine yet. Russia tried their combat squad tactic but it failed because Ukrainians took out their logistics and the squad would break down. They went back to the tested trench warfare to hold the line and mined every square feet.

Ukrainians used NATO tactics and had huge casualties because those don't work in actual war army vs army. Then they changed to just sending infantry over the mind fields, and so far they've had 18000 amputees in the first half of this year alone. (UK had 15000 amputees in all of WW2 and they still sucked back then, gives some perspective. And those are official Ukrainian numbers, so probably very low compared the real numbers.)

Did people get dumber? Organizational learning is caused by karma breaking down. Being really "dumb" for real will lead to quicker learning, if your organization lacks "fluff". If bolstered like Ukraine with western funding you can probably keep going for a very long time without learning a thing, but this is the modern western way of doing things. Never learn, never change. Then when someone solves it by breaking the rules, don't acknowledge how it was solved but instead claim it was the non functional method that "broke through".