Effects On Soldiers

These benefits aren’t insignificant, and affect many people across the globe. Soldiers are heavily affected by the increased usage of drones, primarily due to their requirement to adapt to the new way of war. According to Michael K. Lima, “There are many benefits of a standardized approach, including a reduction of development costs by using proven munitions designs and eliminating the need for new drone-specific munitions. Military units familiar with the munitions can seamlessly integrate them into drone operations, minimizing training and ensuring compatibility with existing stockpiles”(Lima). This process of needing to use standard munitions for an entirely new piece of warfare highlights the way soldiers need to adapt to the drones we use today. It also means that they need to adapt less than if they had to take classes, meaning they still adapt but just not as much as they could be. There are also many real life examples of soldiers having to adapt to drones. According to Mathew Luxmoore, ”A shortage of artillery shells since 2023 has forced Ukraine to increasingly rely on millions of so-called first-person-view —or FPV—drones, which are equipped with a camera and a small explosive to take out enemy soldiers, weapons caches and armored vehicles” (Luxmoore). Being forced to rely on drones rather than artillery causes soldiers to use new equipment that they might have never seen before, showing us a form of adaptation. Also, the accessibility and effectiveness of drone usage in war can also give us insight on the reasons that soldiers have to adapt to new weapons, like that drones are abundant and could possibly be the future of warfare with their rate of technological advancement.