Minefields in modern warfare are not intended to kill or disable assets (vehicles/troops), yet it does happen. Mostly you setup a minefield, the same reason you would make a big ditch, berm, barbed wire, or some kind of wall or fence. That is to manuver or guide you enemy into a location for you to hit them with other weapons. Basically you use them to deny the enemy that portion of the battlefield.
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Mine warfare
U.S. Army soldier removes fuse from a Russian-made mine to clear a minefield outside of Fallujah, Iraq.In military science, minefields are considered a defensive or harassing weapon, used to slow the enemy down, to help deny certain terrain to the enemy, to focus enemy movement into kill zones, or to reduce morale by randomly attacking matériel and personnel.
Land mines (sometimes called area denial munitions) are used to secure disputed borders and to restrict enemy movement in times of war. Tactically they serve a purpose similar to barbed wire or concrete dragon's teeth vehicle barriers, channelling the movement of attacking troops in ways that permit the defenders to engage them more easily. From a military perspective, land mines serve as force multipliers, allowing an organised force to overcome a larger enemy.
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