There is no guidance or acknowledgement that in our national security agencies, even as we execute our current mission, our capabilities decline every year due to security breaches, technology timing out, tradecraft obsolescence, etc.
However, when the Islamic State's financial capabilities decline they'll no longer be able to do that.
Likewise, Romanian military capability declined because of a lack of fuel as well as training.
It is the period that most people currently reach by their 80s, when their capabilities decline and they return increasingly to a childlike state of dependency.
Moreover, think of how the price of smartphones with equal capabilities has declined: a phone that you could buy for $1,000 five years ago might cost around $200 today.
A U.S. official acknowledged that the launch helped improve American intelligence on North Korean capabilities but declined to specify what had been discovered in the short life of the Taepodong 2 rocket, a missile Pyongyang is believed to be developing into an intercontinental ballistic missile.
"Without strong leadership, careful planning and additional funds, these capabilities will decline".
"It's likely our capabilities will decline fairly precipitously at just the time they're most needed," he said.
"It's likely our capabilities will decline fairly precipitously at just the time they're most needed," said Dennis Hartmann, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington and the chairman of the committee that produced the report.
