martha: the u.s. army facing unprecedented challenges in recruiting new troops. it s only halfway to its goal for this year. cutting their target for force size by 10,000 troops from 476 down to 466. the army says this is the most challenging recruiting environment since the creation of the all-volunteer force. we ve got unprecedented challenges with both a post covid-19 environment and labor market, but also competition, private competition with private companies that have changed their incentives over time. you ve seen that with the incentives that companies have provided. martha: like working at home. let s bring in general jack keane, chairman of the instituted for the study of war. general, these were issues that were important to you in your former role in terms of how to
it, including working at home. every aspect of society which is already headed in that direction, already addicted to a lot of these things, it s a necessity now for pretty much everybody. that s a very good person. in-person conferences is coming back. ces is about to happen, the big tech expo. is there interesting hardware on the horizon? or is it all about software and how we use the apps? apps is the center of the university. there is interesting stuff happening around ar and vr. meta has been trying to push that with oculus. apple is going to weigh in. snapchat is working on glasses. there s all kinds of areas. it s not quite ready for primetime. you ve seen a lot of ads for oculus. it s like let s put this on and look kind of terrible. with the goggles or something. yes. you re not going to see any at ces necessarily. it s a direction people are
maximum amount that dual fuel customers can be charged per year if they pay by direct debit and they use an average amount of energy. of course some people will pay more. your supplier has to send you a notification if your bill is going up, and they have to tell you how much your direct debit is being changed by. if you haven t already had one of those letters or e mails, the chances are you will by the end of the week. we caught up with moira, who found at her bill will go up moira, who found at her bill will go up by a lot more than she was expecting. we ve had an email from our supplier that tells us to expect at least a £60 a month increase, based on the fact that it could go up by our bill could go up overall by 75% on what we pay now. and we ve already seen increases over the last year some of which based on working at home, obviously we re here more, we re using more energy. but our energy bills have been going up for the last year. they ve just gone up again and, with t