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In a troubled world, militaries are running out of people to fight wars
Efforts to widen recruitment pools won’t move the needle. The pursuit of technology might, but this has wider implications
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Filling military ranks has been a struggle amid falling birth rates and the growing unpopularity of a uniformed job among the young.
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