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[tense music playing]
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[helicopter blades whirring]
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[narrator] Special Operation Forces
are the elite commandos of the military.
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They conduct ambushes,
they conduct reconnaissance.
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[narrator] They're also called upon
to conduct espionage operations.
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[man] Special ops people go in
and do a raid
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to get… piece of equipment
or access to a program.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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[narrator] To be successful,
they rely on cutting edge technology.
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The SEAL teams used every piece
of spy craft available to them
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in the hunt for bin Laden.
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[narrator] While Special Operations Forces
are found at the tip of the spear,
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future technology seeks
to separate the two.
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Planes and drones will be trained
to act and react.
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[man] It's like the rise of the machines,
like Terminator meets The Matrix.
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[theme music playing]
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[narrator] The world's superpowers
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continue to modernize
their military capability
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for espionage with the development
of advanced weaponry,
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but one constant has been the use
of special operations forces
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to embed and gain intelligence
on the enemy.
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These specially selected units
try to resolve the issues
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that are difficult to address
with conventional forces alone.
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To do this, they often work in small units
using unconventional tactics…
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-[gunshot]
-many first developed in the United States
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by Major Robert Rogers back in 1756.
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Robert's Rangers,
in the French and Indian War,
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were a classic example
of special operations
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taking indigenous troops,
but fight them on their own terms.
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[gunfire exploding]
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You dressed in buckskins.
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You wear a green uniform,
you camouflage yourself.
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You carried a musket, a pistol,
and a tomahawk.
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And you launched guerrilla warfare.
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[Costa] In effect, it's about
closing with and engaging with your enemy.
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And that's what Rogers wrote about
hundreds of years ago,
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the idea of patrolling silently
and ambushing your adversary.
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Rangers today are trained
in the same tactics
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using some of the same principles.
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[narrator] In fact,
many Special Operations Forces
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around the world use similar tactics
for espionage operations
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including sabotage.
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[Melton]
Sabotage is a very effective tool.
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These days, it is often undertaken
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by members
of the special operations community,
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sometimes working in conjunction
with the CIA.
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[narrator] One great example of sabotage
was operation Gunnerside,
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led by a team from the British Special
Operations Executive, the SOE,
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who trained Norwegian commandos
during World War II.
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The daring mission was designed
to prevent the Nazis
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from producing ingredients
to create an atomic bomb.
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[Fischer] The Germans built a heavy
water plant at a place in Norway, Rjukan.
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The idea was to… heavy water
was to be used
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in the German atomic bomb program.
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Heavy water would have been used
as a precursor for some kind of
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atomic weapon capability
that the Germans wanted.
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[tense music playing]
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[narrator] Deuterium was produced
in a hydro plant called Vemork
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at the bottom of a huge gorge in Norway.
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A French commando unit
attempted to seize it
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but were attacked by Germans
leaving only four survivors.
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SOE Lieutenant Rønneberg
and five Norwegian commandos
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made another attempt to take it by joining
the four fighters on the ground.
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[Fischer] It was a small detachment.
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Parachuted into Northern Norway
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where they could land safely
without being detected by the Germans.
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[narrator] The nine-man unit
made their way to Vemork unseen
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and split into two groups,
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one to destroy the facility,
and the other to act as lookouts.
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They had to break into the place,
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which meant that they had to bypass
the German guards,
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get inside, and set explosives.
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[narrator] The group's target
was a battery of 18 cells,
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the last stage in the production
of heavy water.
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Rønneberg set four explosive charges
and blew the cells up.
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He and the other commandos made their way
to the mountainside three hours away
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where they skied to safety.
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Operation Gunnerside was one of the most
successful sabotage missions
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in the entire war.
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The SOE also worked closely
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with the United States Office
of Strategic Services, OSS,
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the predecessor of the CIA
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and the US intelligence agency
during World War II.
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[gunfire popping]
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Their alliance went far beyond
the battlefield.
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[gunfire popping]
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There was very close cooperation
with the British,
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and we mobilized scientists,
engineers, and technicians
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just to work on special projects
for the wartime.
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Some were quite innovative,
quite imaginative.
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[narrator] One innovation was a device
called The Liberator pistol
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intended for distribution
to resistance groups
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in occupied countries.
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The Liberator pistol
was a tiny little single short 45.
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It was designed to fit
in the palm of your hand,
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and designed to get in close to somebody,
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execute him, and then take away his gun.
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So we put a lot of those
into the hands of French Resistance
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to help them get guns from the Germans.
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[gunfire pops]
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[narrator] The Liberator pistol
was intended for short-range use,
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and although it held five extra rounds
of ammo in the pistol grip,
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it could only hold one round
in the barrel.
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And after firing you'd need to extract
the spent cartridge using a rod
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before replacing it with a fresh round.
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[gunfire pops]
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Another one was a little device called JA,
Joan Allen, we called it.
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And the Joan Allen was a very, very
short-range radio
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that was designed to make contact
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with an aircraft flying
directly over a field.
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And it was designed… was to
help the OSS drop supplies and people
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to the resistance.
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Because the range of the radio
was so short
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and the beam was directed
straight up at the airplane.
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The Germans couldn't intercept it.
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[narrator] The Cold War
saw great advances in technology
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that intelligence agencies
and Special Operations Forces
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could benefit from.
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These advancements continue today
with revolutionary devices
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designed by both the military
and commercial technology companies.
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One example is the Prism 200
made by Cambridge Consultants in England.
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This device fits in a backpack
and uses ultra-wideband signals
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to obtain a 3D view
of an adversary behind a wall.
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It can detect movement through wood,
concrete, or bricks.
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The user can monitor the room
on the other side with a smart phone,
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which can also be linked remotely
to computers back at base.
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Another innovative device is the TEC Torch
developed by US Air Force
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that can slice through metal
like a piece of cake.
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And smart and self-guided bullets
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that can change their projected path
during flight.
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Advances in tracking,
sensory detection, and weaponry
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help support Special Operations Forces,
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specifically when deployed to find,
fix, and finish a specific target.
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They developed the words
find, fix, and finish.
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We're going to find and identify
the person who will become the target.
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We're going to fix them
in a specific location
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that we know they'll be.
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Once that's done, then it's passed over
to the action element,
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to capture, or,
if necessary, kill the target.
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[narrator] The elements of find, fix,
and finish have been incorporated
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into several high profile special
operations missions in recent years,
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including Operation Red Dawn,
the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003
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by task Force 121,
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a multi-service force made up
of elite operators
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which included
the US Army's Delta Force,
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and the US Navy's SEAL Team Six.
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Ultimately, catching Saddam Hussein
proved to be more devilishly difficult
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than was first envisioned.
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And the belief was that he would stay
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with his top-level advisors
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and somehow maintain some Alamo-type
of last defense.
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And the US found
that quite the opposite was true.
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That essentially, the Iraqi military
and intelligence services
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just disappeared into the fabric.
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They just laid down the arms,
changed uniforms into civilian clothes,
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and just disappeared.
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Saddam was, at the end,
he was traveling in a taxicab
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with a bodyguard,
a suitcase full of cash and weapons,
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and going from prearranged location
to prearranged location,
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never staying in the same place
more than one night.
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[narrator] Tracking Saddam meant
following his digital footprint.
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Eventually, some very clever analysts
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put together an early version
of a social network.
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And they'd begin to analyze the people
that were closest to him,
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and especially the bodyguards.
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Then they'd look for a concentration
of phone calls about the time,
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in that area, that he would appear.
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They wanted to see strange,
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we see him here,
and we get this cluster of calls.
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We see him here now,
we get a similar cluster of calls.
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So they begin to try
to identify clusters of calls
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in advance to predict where he might be.
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And by connecting the dots
they were able to identify which calls
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were predictive of his movements.
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And finally were able
to pin him down to a rat hole.
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And a rat hole was a prepared
underground tomb.
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And what was successfully--
they found the site,
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didn't see anything was there, stepped,
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and found what was,
in effect, the trap door.
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And opened it, and shone a light.
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And they contemplated
tossing in a grenade.
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And he… No, he shouts out,
"Stop! I'm the president of Iraq.
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I want to negotiate."
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[helicopter whirs]
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[narrator] Saddam Hussein was captured,
stood trial,
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and was executed on December 30th, 2006.
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Another high profile case
of Special Operations Force
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mission to find, fix, and finish
was the hunt for Osama bin Laden,
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the founder and leader of
terrorist organization Al-Qaeda,
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who had orchestrated the attacks on 9-11.
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[Melton] The CIA used every piece
of spy craft available to them
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in the multi-year hunt for bin Laden.
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[narrator] Bin Laden had been on the run
for almost ten years
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before the CIA received positive intel
on his possible whereabouts,
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a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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[Melton] They were never 100% certain
it was Osama bin Laden.
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But from satellites they knew
that there was a single man
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living in a relatively large compound
in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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And each day he would pace
inside a walled area.
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And because they knew the precise location
of where it was,
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and they knew the time of day,
and the angle of the sun,
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from the satellite they could measure
his shadow and then calculate his height.
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And they knew that it came
within a fraction of an inch
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of being exactly his height.
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They also noted that there were
no cell phones within the target.
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It's highly unusual to not have
any cell phone communication
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from a compound area.
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[narrator] Over the next few months,
the CIA used informants,
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surveillance, and other intelligence
gathering measures
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including a fake vaccination program
to try to find and collect samples
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from bin Laden's compound
in order to confirm his identity.
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Based on intelligence,
former president Barack Obama
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authorized the CIA and US SEAL Team Six
to plan for the raid.
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[Melton] We've often referred to the SEAL
teams as spies with flippers.
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There's a close nexus between
the special operations community
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and the intelligence community
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that was designed by Admiral McRaven,
the legendary SEAL Team Six commander.
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[narrator] In the early morning hours
of May 2nd, 2011,
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Joint Special Operations Command
launched Operation Neptune Spear
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to bring back bin Laden, dead or alive.
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It was launched from Pakistan.
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The idea was ideally
a 45 to 50-minute operation,
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roughly a 50-man team.
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[narrator] It's believed that along
with other air support,
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at least two MH-60 Blackhawk helicopters
incorporating stealth technology
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to avoid detection were used
in the operation.
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They were to assault the compound
in multiple helicopters,
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repel down onto the third story.
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At the same time, another helicopter
would land on the ground,
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and they would assault from below.
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The idea is overwhelm it
and land at the same time.
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The difficulty is that the first
helicopter crash landed
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in the very thin altitude in the compound.
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So all of the team had to, in effect,
assault the building from the bottom.
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[narrator] Reportedly, predator drones
and space-based satellites
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conveyed vital information
to the team on the ground
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who wore helmet-mounted cameras
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to transmit intel to commanders
back at the base
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and in the situation room
in Washington DC.
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This would also help the team
quickly identify their targets,
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pick up every threat,
and take them down fast.
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[Melton] They were able to get inside,
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kill one terrorist in one of the buildings
on the way in.
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They killed his son,
who was blocking the second floor.
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They achieved access to the third level.
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And of the SEALS that went up there,
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one of them saw a man
stick his head out of a door, they fired.
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They went into the room; it was bin Laden.
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They fired again and he was dead.
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[Melton] He was there with one
of his wives, and another woman.
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Neither of them were hurt.
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But the team then successfully begin
to mine the place for data.
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And they had a data exploitation team
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that extracted every digital device
that was there.
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Every computer, every hard drive,
all written records.
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And that became a treasure trove
that was referred to internally
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as the Osama bin Laden library.
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From beginning to end of operation
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it had taken less than 40 minutes.
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SEAL Team Six was credited
with carrying out the daring mission
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and eliminating one of the world's
most wanted terrorists.
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The deployment
of Special Operations Forces
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has been a successful strategy for both
intelligence and defense purposes.
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But today, there are threats even
special ops teams can't protect against.
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One effective tactic of modern day
sabotage is information warfare.
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[dynamic music playing]
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[Yousef] So this is basically using
a computer
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and artificial intelligence system
to basically create a face
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that doesn't exist.
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Create a human being
that was never there before,
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giving it expression, and allowing
it to talk and voice an opinion.
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What's really scary
is when you Google "deep fakes"
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and "Obama" or "Putin"
or "President Trump",
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you actually see videos
where the video's manipulated
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for that individual to say something
that's completely out of character,
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but you saw it, you heard it,
it's got to be real.
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Information warfare is going to be
a key area of concern
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going into the 21st century.
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We're in the opening stages
of a second technology arms race.
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Where the 20th century was about
innovation in nuclear and space,
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you're starting to see the 21st century
be an arms race around key areas
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like artificial intelligence and robotics.
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These are things being driven
by Russians, the Chinese,
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by us, and some of our counterparts
in Europe as well.
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[narrator] One agency at the forefront
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in the development of new defense
technology in the United States
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is The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, or DARPA.
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[Yousef] They really focus on creating
over the horizon technologies.
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I mean they're out there
basically trying to create the impossible.
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[narrator] Some over the horizon tech
being tested
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are High Energy Liquid Laser Area
Defense Systems, or HELLADS.
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These ground based laser systems
shoot powerful laser beams
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at light speed through the air or space
over distances of thousands of miles.
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The heat produced by the beams
burns through the surface of a target
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and can disable warheads
or ignite fuels or explosives.
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DARPA also recently announced
an initiative to focus research
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on artificial intelligence
and unmanned systems
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that can operate autonomously.
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[Yousef] Old tech, a human being
with a gun
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and radio going into a dark tunnel
looking for the bad guy.
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New tech, you've got seven or ten
different robots crawling through a tunnel
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or complex, or a warehouse district,
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and communicating with each other
in terms of what they see, what they hear,
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and what the threat might look like.
Massive savings in human life.
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[robot whirs]
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Artificial intelligence is a branch
of machine learning, right?
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Of the ability of the machine
for itself to do--
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instead of a human telling it
what the relationship,
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it learns relationships among data itself
much faster than humans could teach it,
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much deeper, broader,
and draws relationships among data
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that humans would never see before.
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[narrator] One key driver
for this advanced technology
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has been a game changer,
quantum computing.
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Instead of bits,
which conventional computers use,
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a quantum computer uses quantum bits
known as qubits.
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These qubits can store an enormous amount
of information, and uses less energy,
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allowing us to create processors
that are a million times faster
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than the ones we use today.
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Quantum is one area that, I think,
every major superpower
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and Western government
is dedicating resources to.
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One of the holy grails
going to shape the 21st century.
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[narrator] One of the biggest areas
of advancement
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has been in drone technology.
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A fleet of drones operating together,
right now that would tax what we have
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in artificial intelligence systems,
and computing power.
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As you get breakthroughs
in artificial intelligence
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and quantum computing,
that kind of processing,
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that kind of type of coordination,
or streamlining of the entanglement,
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is something you can do
at a greater scale,
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thereby allowing you to operate
a larger system of drones, robots,
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or systems that are talking,
coordinating with each other.
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[narrator]
Drones don't only operate in the sky.
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In 2019 the US Navy contracted Boeing
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to develop four enormous undersea drones
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to wage war beneath the surface
of the ocean.
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They're called the Orca.
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These attack submarines
are part of a fast-evolving
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Navy unmanned autonomy program.
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They're currently being used
to gather data,
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but they're working on ways for them
to communicate in real time,
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carry out reconnaissance missions,
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hunt, deploy mines, and fire torpedoes.
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[Yousef] Both the US, the Russians,
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and Chinese are working
on different platforms
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that will allow for autonomous vehicles
to be deployed out in the battlefield,
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and these are two, three, four, five,
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ten vehicles talking and coordinating
in terms of movements and locations.
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We get to the point where you'll have
machine on machine warfare,
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where you'll have a swarm of drones
or devices meant to act offensively.
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[drones whir]
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So a lot of the stuff that you saw
in the turn of the century,
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in terms of autonomous systems,
and robotics, Skynet and The Terminator,
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all that stuff seemed far-fetched,
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but here we are 20 years
after the turn of the century,
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and a lot of the technologies
that we saw that were science fiction,
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we're starting to see come to fruition.
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[narrator] Hypersonics is another area
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nation states are dedicating
a lot of resources
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to see who can get to the point
of dominance and breakthrough first.
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[Melton] China is actively
developing systems
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that they believe cannot be defeated
by existing US counter-missile technology.
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And the idea is that if you can
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launch a weapon
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and have it then go at hypersonic speed
as it approaches a target
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that it can't be intercepted.
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[Yousef] The area of hypersonics
is garnering a lot of attention,
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both on the Chinese side,
and obviously on the US side.
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If you look at hypersonics,
what really that means is,
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when one side fires a rocket or a device,
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the space, or the pace
that the device travels,
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allows it to flow and go so fast
that it basically avoids detection,
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meaning by the time
one side launches the device,
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and by the time it reaches its target,
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the other side has just detected it.
So there's no capable defense for it.
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[booming]
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[narrator] China recently successfully
tested the XINGKONG, or Starry Sky,
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which it publicly described
as a hypersonic waverider vehicle,
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a reference to the missile
that can travel close to the water
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to avoid detection and missile defense.
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We are also seeing a breakthrough
in innovation
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with remote sensing technology.
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Everyone talks about building
a concrete wall on the Southern border.
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That's not what's happening.
If you look at the different technologies
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being tested and deployed
on the Southern wall,
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you're looking at remote sensors,
at computer vision,
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at unmanned drones.
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It's basically a sensor ray
or a virtual wall
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that's meant to detect
and identify and protect equities.
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It's the Southern border to the country,
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but that same technology would apply
to a facility, a base,
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or an outpost out in the middle
of a war zone.
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The benefit of these technologies
is they enhance, and in some cases,
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take the place of what was done
by a regular infantryman.
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For example, at the start of the Gulf War,
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what we saw was infantry men
donning special suits and equipment
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to go on the front line and defuse a bomb,
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and this was putting them
at tremendous risk.
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What you saw towards the end
of the Gulf War,
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and what you're seeing today,
is that job has been replaced by a robot,
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by a drone,
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something that's taken the operator out
of that direct line of harm.
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There's a definite enhancement
and benefit to our servicemen
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when you have a robot that's on the tip
of the spear versus being an operator.
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So as drones become more and more capable,
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human elements will gradually disappear
from this equation.
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And they have all of the ability
to intercommunicate
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and establish tactics on their own.
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[Yousef] It's like rise of the machines,
and Terminator meets The Matrix.
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A bunch of devices, drones
and systems working together
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without a lot of human oversight.
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For us to be able to navigate this future,
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We need to have cultural, societal norms
that drive what is right and what's not
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in terms of entrusting so much
of our future on autonomous systems.
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What's scary is if a government decides
to launch a fleet of these devices
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without any human oversight,
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i.e., making the algorithm
or the brain inside that machine
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make very grave and critical decisions
to include whether to fire or not fire,
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if it does have an ordinance
on that platform.
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[narrator] Many believe it's too late
for containment
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as more and more products
used in the household
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as well as on the battlefield
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are able to communicate
not only with us but with each other.
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Genie's out, but we want to make sure
we contain it best we can.
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I have faith in the people
that are working to keep us safe.
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I don't lose any sleep over that.
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I lose much more sleep over what happens
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if we don't use the tools
that are available to us
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to stop madmen in North Korea,
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or getting the Iranian government
to get a nuclear bomb.
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Those are things that worry me,
not the abuses here in this country.
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[Yousef] If we can get
to the point of proper coordination
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and cooperation between
private sector and public sector,
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we can unlock these technologies
that will enhance the way we live,
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also enhance how we keep ourselves
safe from adversaries,
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both domestic and abroad.
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Those breakthroughs in technologies
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are going to have a greater
implication and application
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in terms of how
the 21st century plays out.
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