The other problem we face—and we stopped doing this at the end of the Cold War—is we seldom have the large-scale exercises that say, okay, we have something such as artificial intelligence. Where does it come into the various elements of the armed forces, both in getting ready and in actually conducting war? How do we know what we don't know unless we practise it?
One of the greatest difficulties that we face as we deal with the issue of artificial intelligence, as we're seeing from the reports coming out of the Russian-Ukrainian war, is of course that we're still trying to understand what it actually means.
Many people still have the science fiction view of the robots taking over, like in Terminator, and that's the fear. That's not what it is, but the problem is that we don't know where it actually adds to our capability, and we don't know where we have to be thinking about where our enemies are using it against us. The only way you really get to know that is by engaging your enemies. Short of that, it's the engagement with the training exercises in a realistic environment that is large-scale, and it addresses that. To my knowledge, we're not doing that type of exercise.