Operation Spider’s Web can be considered a watershed moment in the Russia–Ukraine war, but cannot be understood as a watershed alone without comparing it with other recent events such as Israel’s Pager attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria in September 2024. The question is, what can we learn from these events? How will traditional militaries prevail over these new technological weapons?
However, it is a fact that new weapons used during the war can shift the balance of power during warfare; however, nothing has changed much in these wars. During the Second World War, Germany introduced the V-2 rockets. Germany lost badly in the Second World War. Israel is still struggling to fight against the terrorism of Hamas and Hezbollah, and Russia is still in better shape since not much has changed with the drone attacks on the Russian side. However, technological innovation and its first use can change the dynamics of warfare. To prevent further attacks, new military technologies have come and will come to change the balance of power. It is imperative to delve deeper into these comparable military events to prevent future national security challenges for any nation. Notably, all these technologies were used as part of hybrid warfare, where the conventional military fights a war on the battlefield, and professional technical engineering is used to attack long-distance units of adversaries.
