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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Ender's Game] Why exactly are they recruiting children to be generals?
gpt
The buggers are unlike any enemy Humanity has ever faced and "defeating" them the first time was something of a fluke. Not wanting to rely on the hope of a similar fluke to win the next war, they started recruiting children because they needed fresh malleable minds. This was in contrast to attempting to retrain adults whose minds were brought up on the concepts of traditional warfare.