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One of the great things about the 21st century (and really the last part of the 20th) was that most armies no longer "practiced" the art of war with large units (Corps sized or larger). Most of the wars post WWII were small unit affairs.
Prior to that armies were mobilizing and conducting large-scale movements & assaults every 30-40 years, so that the low-level unit commander in one conflict would then became a large-unit field commander in the next.
Doesn't work like that anymore. Most militaries no longer have the "Old heads" that have been part of large unit campaigns.
The result is what you see with today's Russian military. The lessons learned from WWII are long forgotten.
In addition, there is such a reliance placed on technology that human thinking has gone by the wayside– Not that soldiers and unit commanders in the old Soviet system were encouraged to think for themselves based on the situation hence a big reason why they had such incredibly high losses in WWII.
