At The Boundary Battlefield Medical Lessons from Ukraine: Adapting to Future Conflict
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Description:
In this episode of At the Boundary, GNSI’s Jim Cardoso sits down with Dr. Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos—Director of the Center for Health Services Research and Doctoral Programs in Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University—to explore how lessons from the Ukraine war are reshaping U.S. battlefield medicine.
From the death of the "Golden Hour" to the rise of drone evacuations and mobile surgical units, this conversation examines how the U.S. military is preparing for medical realities in future conflicts—especially across vast, maritime regions like INDOPACOM.
Topics include:
• Why traditional evacuation timelines are no longer reliable
• Medical innovation in low-air-superiority environments
• Field surgeries, hospital trains, and rapid-deployment surgical ships
• Challenges of sustaining operating rooms at sea
• Digitizing battlefield medical records
• Impacts of aging fighting forces and declining youth health
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Links from the episode:
• “The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence” by Jeff Rogg
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