Austin stressed the importance of emerging technology and the rapid increases in computing power to push the military into the future — and away from the more traditional wars of the Middle East fought on conventional battlefields.
“Galloping advances in technology mean changes in the work we do to keep the United States secure across all five domains of potential conflict — not just air, land and sea, but also space and cyberspace,” Austin said, speaking Friday afternoon at the change of command for US Indo-Pacific Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. “They mean we need new…
