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Unmanned aerial drones are allowed to deploy in theater but 99 infantry units. Theyre only allowed to stay back with artillery units. There is still even amongst the most advanced countries in overcoming these hurdles, hurdles still remain. So its a little bit naive to think that all these issues are going to go away immediately in part because a lot of these developments are tactically driven. And so im very excited that came up as a point of conversation. My own Research Deals primarily with irregular armed groups, rebel groups, et cetera. Insurgencies. And what weve seen is that a lot of th...

Things will kind of go not go away but kind of allow it . Like she said, when she was in the class with the lieutenants, they wasnt worried about oh, youre female. Maybe its more of a generation, as you said, generations before. I think i graduated the same year as you. I saw Different Things and probably the lieutenants coming out today. Thats my question. And is there research being done with maybe a generational gap as far as cultural as we change our culture . I definitely believe it is leaderships ability to change that and make a difference. Thats a great question. Anybody want to take a...

Leadership that we quite often consider quite acceptable because they are usually quite effective. They create the kind of units that perform according to the standards at the end of the day. Why should we fire them if theyre effective as officers. While actually they are producing unit cultures that in the end may become really problematic. Some experiences with the worst cases of units misbehavior leading to crimes or war crimes, for example. We have the business literature out there supporting us more and more. That doesnt mean so much, though. Because, again we are looking at combat that d...

Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409...

I should have asked how many civilians were in the audience. Yes, excellent. [laughter] host it is no exaggeration to say there is a wealth of knowledge and experience in this room, and thats why were going to try to make this more of a conversation than a series of presentations. Were looking forward to that. This discussion is really about the central question of unit cohesion and leadership. In the battlefield, especially in the close fight. We have with us four people that i think provide a great perspective across the board. Dr. Megan mckenzie from the university of sydney. Shes a senior ...