By Andriy Dovbenko

The Ministry of Defence is right about one thing: digital skills matter more than ever on today’s battlefield.

Anyone who has spent time around modern soldiers, especially drone pilots, knows that fast reactions, spatial awareness and the ability to process multiple information feeds at once are essential.

Games like Call of Duty or VelociDrone can absolutely help younger recruits build those reflexes and instincts.

But we should not confuse that with combat readiness. We’ve already seen Czech military instructors ask Ukrainians not to use drones during a recent training drill, due to what they called “excessive realism”.

If you’re training soldiers to fight in scenarios without drones, you’re preparing them for a war that was fought a decade ago.

Britain’s armed forces are operating in a world where war looks very different to the conflicts of the past 20 years. Nowhere is that clearer than in Ukraine, where high-intensity drone warfare, electronic interference, dispersed infantry and rapid........

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