The Ghost of the Near Miss

The Terror of the Near Miss

When a precision-guided munition misses its intended military target and strikes a residential apartment block instead, the technical error is often discussed in terms of collateral damage or intelligence failure. But for those living in the shadow of these errors, the trauma is not a mathematical deviation. It is a rupture in the fundamental sense of safety that humans require to function. A missed strike creates a specific kind of psychological terror: the realization that even when