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Award winning author and prominent military advisor Peter W. Singer visited Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 26, 2017, to discuss his thoughts on the future of the battlefield, and help prepare the force for the future operating environment.
Singer, a best-selling author and strategist with the think tank and civic enterprise New America, spoke to I Marine Expeditionary Force and supporting units about what’s changing, what comes next and how can they predict future threats.
Singer is an award winning author who has written two books that are currently on the commandant’s professional reading list: “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War,” and “Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century.” He is also on the Top 100 Global Thinkers List by Foreign Policy, and in 2008, he served as the coordinator of the Obama election campaign's defense policy task force.
While addressing I MEF leaders, to include 1st Marine Division’s commanding general Maj. Gen. Daniel O’Donohue, Singer said, “Rather than throwing our hands in the air and saying, ‘Gosh, the future is unpredictable; we shouldn’t even try,’ the reality is that you have to wrestle with the future if you are working in training, if you’re building strategy, doctrine, budgeting. You’re making decisions not about today; you’re making decisions about tomorrow. You’re making decisions about the future.”
Singer spoke about technologies that are a leap ahead, not just the difference between evolutions of one phone to the next, but the difference between a rotary phone and a smart phone, or as he put it, “technologies that give you some type of capability that was science fiction a generation ago.”
Singer pointed out that the United States is not the only country that has developing technologies, and that other countries, in some areas, surpass America’s. Singer showed images of future hardware that is already becoming possible on today’s battlefield.
Currently on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017 is using Marines and sailors to field-test over 50 new technologies, from swarming unmanned surface vessels to self-driving amphibious vehicles.
Singer said that I MEF can’t predict the future but it can look at common trends that are happening today and how they can develop in the future.
| Date Taken: | 04.26.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 04.27.2017 15:39 |
| Story ID: | 231808 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, CA, US |
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