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(Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Europe)

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley meets with Maj. Gen. Anders Brännström, chief of the Swedish Army, during the 23rd annual
Conference of European Armies, held 26–28 October 2015 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Senior land force commanders from more than thirty
European partner nations, the United States, and Canada gathered to discuss the future of cooperative European security operations. The
conference focused on the current security environment, how to win in a complex world, and freedom of movement throughout Europe.

On Convergence,
Emergence, and
Complexity
Lt. Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, U.S. Army, Retired

There are many truths, some valid for one, some for another. Things are not what they seem … It is a lesson we must learn
and relearn because we keep searching for certainty and certainty does not exist.
—Harrison Salisbury

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e are inextricably linked to the global
condition—physically, virtually, and spiritually. There is little we can do about the

linkage. Isolation is neither practical or feasible. There
must be something more we can do about the antithetical values and reprehensible actions that may come
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