Alongside rumors of mystery ‘sonic weapon’ these are the new technologies which will shape US warfare

Among the most worrying developments and major mysteries in war and espionage over the last decade is a condition known as Havana Syndrome.

Availing itself in 2016, impacting Americans first in the Cuban capital, thus resulting in its name, and later in Moscow, Shanghai and Paris, it is a condition that has left victims enduring debilitating dizziness and mind-numbing headaches.

The symptoms mimicked head trauma and there are suspicions that the ill effects were caused by radio waves unleashed by hostile governments. Some injuries have been bad enough to end civil servants’ careers.

Lasers can be expedient weapons for the shooting down of missiles. This picture is an artist’s rendering of how it would work. MOD / SWNS

Now, according to CNN, the Pentagon has