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In the 1930s, German and British passengers expressed fears about the Nazis, and military officers told him that Germany was equipping for war.
"That's where the law enforcement aspect of the Sept. 11 story began," Miller writes, "and where American law enforcement agencies first revealed themselves to be institutionally ill equipped for the war this new enemy had brought to U.S. shores".
Beyond the military, the broader national security apparatus was unprepared to provide the necessary whole-of-government response, and the larger effort fell to the military that had been organized, trained, and equipped for major war.
It may be a tough sales job for an administration that took office insisting that America's military is best equipped for fighting wars -- not fixing broken countries.
Europe may therefore have been well equipped for its post-war decades of chasing the United States, but did not adopt the policies needed to push back the technological limits.The second observation is that, whereas most theories of growth laud the accumulation of capital, it is sometimes good to see it destroyed.
Already, Petraeus has started to expound his "big idea" about U.S. military strategy toward Pakistan: that the Pakistan Army must be convinced that it faces no existential threat from India but does face a revolutionary threat from jihadis within its borders — and so should shift its emphasis from planning and equipping itself for war with India to eliminating homegrown jihadis.
At such moments, it was hard not to have uncharitable thoughts about the war — that Americans today aren't equipped for something of this magnitude.
Europe had built modern industrial economies before World War II, complete with cultures trained and equipped for dynamic economic progress.
A single man may be persuaded to launch a war he'll soon regret; Congress, in theory anyway, is better equipped for grand strategy and debate at the direction of the American people.
