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PETER SINGER:  The amazing changes in technology that we’re experiencing right now, such as the growing use of unmanned systems, which with Moore's law are becoming more and more smart and more and more lethal.

You have a changing generation that’s entering into service. You have the millennials joining, who are digital natives who have never known the world without computers; a generation that, to them, the Vietnam War is as distant as World War I was to the baby boomers. You have changing domains of security, in which those young airmen might be called upon to serve. They might be called upon to protect assets in space; they might be called upon to carry out a humanitarian disaster response in Africa. And then finally we have a changing economic and budget environment, which is acting to both heighten those threats, as well as maybe constrain the responses that we can make.

And the key is that each of those changes, an individual would be historic in challenging just by itself, but they’re happening all at once and growing, and that makes them all the more challenging.

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