If the flooding was intentional, Ukraine would be the latest military to employ the centuries-old practice.
Deliberate flooding during combat — either to erect a barrier or destroy an area — is known as “hydraulic warfare,” and it has often been used to supplement a defensive strategy, Kepe said.“Ukraine is mounting a defensive operation in its own territory,” she said. “Considering that, I would assume that they would be able to use their superior knowledge of the terrain to their advantage. Hydraulic operations would require such in-depth knowledge of the terrain.
found that, from the years 1500 to 2000, about one-third of floods in the country’s southwest were deliberately caused during wartime. The tactic was often ineffective, the study found, and had far-reaching consequences for the land and local population. Water was used elsewhere in Europe as a natural defense line during World War II, including in Finland and the Soviet Union. The most notorious example of strategic flooding occurred in 1938, when the Chinese military breached the dikes of the Yellow River to slow the advance of Japan’s troops during the Second Sino Japanese War.
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