Hara Estroff Marano
Drone warfare in Ukraine is adding a new set of horrors to the already manifold dangers of the front. According to a team of American medical specialists who recently returned from a visit to Ukraine, the precision maneuvering of FPV (first-person view) drones is unleashing unprecedented psychological and neurological harm—as well as physical injury—on soldiers.
“Our visit was an unfortunate way of learning so much about the unique psychological and physical impacts of an emerging era in drone warfare," reports Dr. Ronald Hirschberg, an expert in neurological rehabilitation at Harvard. "While missiles have historically been able to seek out targets, drones represent a new level of precision and psychological warfare, capable of maneuvering remotely to track and kill specific soldiers.”
Hirschberg was visiting Ukraine as a representative of HomeBase, a veterans and family care organization that originated as a charitable effort by Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Red Sox. It’s an incubator for evidence-based healing both nationally and internationally. The visit, organized through Global Response Medicine, including meetings with Ukrainian mental health experts about the unique challenges posed by drone warfare.
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