Why a new Western training program for Ukrainian soldiers skips drone piloting and electronic warfare lessons
Western military trainers are excluding drone piloting and electronic warfare from their curriculum for Ukrainian soldiers because Ukraine already possesses superior expertise in these areas. The training program in Poland focuses on other tactical skills requested by Ukrainian forces.
Why it matters
This highlights the evolving nature of modern warfare where the battlefield experience of the Ukrainian military has surpassed traditional Western doctrine in specific technological domains.
Ukraine is so good at understanding and teaching how to pilot drones that it's not something Western trainers are focusing on. Dmytro Smolienko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images Western soldiers are helping to train Ukrainian soldiers to fight Russia. Trainers say they don't teach drone piloting because Ukraine already does it better. Drones are woven into the training though because they're ubiquitous in the war. A new training program for Ukrainian soldiers on NATO soil isn't teaching them to pilot drones or conduct electronic warfare because Ukraine already knows how to teach those skills itself. Ukrainian soldiers are learning battlefield skills at a purpose-built camp in southeastern Poland as part of a Norway-led multinational effort called Operation Legio, which Business Insider recently visited.
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