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Data and imagery captured on phones and laptops risked being destroyed; WhatsApp and Signal messages containing battle orders and communications disappeared into the ether. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s very little on paper,\u201d Sladden said. \u201cIn 30, 40, 50 years, when historians really start to do the first big histories of this war, I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going to have available to them. Because so much is already lost, even within three years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capturing these lessons across battles and wars in a single repository is the purpose behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/battleresearchgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/battleresearchgroup.org\/\">Battle Research Group<\/a>, a nonprofit launched earlier this year by Ben Connable, a retired Marine Corps major and veteran of numerous defense think tanks, including RAND and the Atlantic Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through studies like the independent report on the Battle of Irpin River, led by Sladden, who is the organization\u2019s field research director, the Battle Research Group aims to capture insights from contemporary and past battles and make them available to scholars and warfighters. To this end, group leaders have also created the <a href=\"https:\/\/groundcombat.org\/database\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/groundcombat.org\/database\">Ground Combat Database<\/a>, a searchable repository of combined arms battles that has 600 entries and counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connable said the impetus for creating the Battle Research Group came from his time at RAND, when he and colleagues realized the practice of documenting war that had persisted through the 20th century seemed to be a fading art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They \u201cbecame kind of increasingly frustrated that we were not putting a lot of time and effort into understanding the wars that were happening, and that was in Syria, in Iraq, and then, the early days in Ukraine,\u201d Connable said. \u201cThere just were not people out on the battlefield examining things the way that we used to do \u2026 and we were losing real opportunities to learn from modern warfare, and we were just kind of drawing a lot of assumptions based on second- and third-order information, not primary sources.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/chacr.org.uk\/2024\/02\/19\/the-battle-of-irpin-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/chacr.org.uk\/2024\/02\/19\/the-battle-of-irpin-river\/\">Irpin River battle study<\/a>, published in 2024 in the British Army Review after two visits to Ukraine, proved wildly popular. Its first printing was entirely distributed, Connable said, and another print run is underway. It\u2019s been taught as professional military education by at least one U.S. Army corps, he said, and the material is now informing a tabletop exercise that will be employed by multiple military colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6240\" height=\"4160\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg 6240w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1396433241.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6240px) 100vw, 6240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A residential building in Irpin, Ukraine, destroyed amid the Russian invasion. (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt just highlighted this gap in the way in particular that Americans approach modern military history,\u201d Connable said. \u201cWe\u2019re in more of a receive mode than a gather mode. We\u2019re just kind of inundated with this gigantic fire hose wave of information every day. And I think we\u2019ve all convinced ourselves that &#8230; that constitutes knowledge, and it very much does not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going deep on firsthand accounts and battlefield lessons learned and comparing case studies has convinced Connable that U.S. policy has seized on elements of findings from Ukraine without considering complete context and proportion. He believes, for example, that efforts by all the services to make drones a forefront component of warfighting are based on a \u201ckaleidoscopic exaggeration\u201d of their success on the battlefield in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll the traditional functions and elements of warfighting can still be relevant: infantry, armor, artillery, manned aircraft, all the things that we\u2019ve come to know. And drones can be useful and important simultaneously. So it\u2019s not about one or the other,\u201d Connable said. \u201cIt\u2019s about moderating change and not into a complete transformation of our military based on a very narrow and ahistorical perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Battle Research Group continues to conduct independent battle studies, its leaders will continue to add to and improve the ground combat database, Connable said. It\u2019s currently accessible via an online spreadsheet and available in an unlocked version on request. He said he\u2019d like to move backward in history, adding battle studies from as far back as World War II and building in more insights from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Future field studies may take members of the group to places like the Philippines, Mozambique, and Sri Lanka \u2014 and \u201canywhere else we can reasonably get access to,\u201d Connable said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the main objectives here is to ensure that we give people the information they need to understand war in global context,\u201d he said, \u201cnot just in a narrow context, near narrow geographic and time-bound concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After noticing that the practice of documenting war was fading, the veteran aimed to capture insights from battles and make them available to scholars. 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