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Marketplace Tech · Thursday, July 9, 2026

Shifting Medical Strategy: Dispersing and Hiding Surgical Teams

In response to the increased threats on the battlefield, military forces are moving away from large, centralized field hospitals. Instead, surgical teams are being dispersed, hidden underground, or located in abandoned buildings to maintain a low profile and reduce vulnerability.

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But what they've done is to take those apart and disperse them and hide them underground. Might be very, very small, might be buried, might be in the basement of an abandoned building. But just trying to have a low profile.
J Price
Heard on Marketplace Tech — “How drone warfare is reshaping battlefield medicine in Ukraine, published Thursday, July 9, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Shifting Medical Strategy: Dispersing and Hiding Surgical Teams — Heardvine