If the future is going to win, it will have to win inside our current system. It will have to win in a system comprising parochial military services, self-interested companies, and largely distracted political leaders—all of whom will continue to be consumed more by present concerns than future ones. Those are the people, interests, and political realities that matter, and none of them can be hand-waved away. This system makes it exceedingly difficult for America’s military to change, or change quickly, but as I have said from the start, I would not be writing this book if I thought all hope
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