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This report discusses the evolution of US combat training. Trends in automation, synthetic combat environments, human performance enhancements, robotics, and access to guided munitions that do not demand as much operator skill to be employed effectively all argue that the margins of tactical advantage realistic training has given US forces in recent conflicts may confer less of a warfighting edge in future decades. If this is the case, how might the US military offset or compensate for this adverse trend?