Ukraine 2022. Back to Passchendaele or the First War of the Information Era? [PART I] [ OPINION]

The war in Ukraine, which has been going on for almost a year, has been a powerful origin of cognition for analysts about the modern armed conflict, becoming, according to some, a determinant of the changes taking place in the battlefield. In a collision with the images from trenches under Bachmut, referring to the association with the 1917 conflict of Passchendaele, 1 should consider the degree to which actions on the Ukrainian-Russian front fit into the explanation of the information era war, and to what degree they stay in the area of the industrial war, known for the large wars of the 20th century.