On Wednesday, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, warned that the world may enter an era of "international instability," with the growing power of China and the emergence of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and robots that may be decisive in wars.
General Milli compared the current era to other major geopolitical transformations that have occurred in world history, including the fall of Rome and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"We are entering a period of potential instability at the international level," Milley said in a speech at Howard University, adding that China's growing power is bringing about a change in the status quo after decades in which the United States was mainly "the undisputed global military, political and economic power. ".
The American general warned that geopolitical change has become accompanied by technological innovation in robots, hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence and other technologies, adding that they are "unusually disruptive technologies that may be decisive in managing wars."
Millie's comments come days after US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned that the United States needs to prepare for a potential future conflict, very different from the "old wars" that have depleted the Defense Department for a long time.