Fenton sees autonomous, flying robots moving beyondthebattlefield, perhaps being used to fight fires as well as battles--with a single human able to survey a five-alarm blaze from the safety of an armchair.
They took on responsibilities once reserved only for those with considerably more seniority - responsibilities that extended beyondthe base or thebattlefield to the politics of Afghanistan, to the politics of Iraq, to the economies of those countries, and to the development tasks that ultimately will lay the groundwork for us to leave behind stable countries that will not threaten us.