>> lieutenant general mark hertling: it does.makes our youngest of soldiers , we require them to be much more educated, much more professionally savvy, much more tactically alert than they've ever been before; that's a training issue. when you're talking about reacting to hybrid threats or asymmetric warfare and especially war among the people where other soldiers aren't wearing uniforms like we've seen in recent conflicts, it takes a very quality young man or woman to conduct those kind over operations. a lot of training involved there. >> john milewski: rob, i don't want to dominate all the questions. >> robert litwak: no, no. >> john milewski: i have many more. >> robert litwak: general hertling's comments about the character of the threat resonates with, you know, work we've done at the wilson center, which is try to elucidate the nature of the emerging international system where you see changes taking place at all levels transnationally, interstate and intrastate and yet we live in an international system where states remain