At the last NATO summit, George Bush challenged the Europeans to turn the new response force into a tough, high-tech force.
General Franks' ideas for a larger invasion force were blown apart by Rumsfeld's desire to create a smaller, high-tech force, and the consequences were all too obvious in the failure to protect against postwar looting.
Second, Rummy wanted to prove to all those U.S. generals whose Army he was intent on downsizing that a small, mobile, high-tech force was all you needed today to take over a country.
One view of Israel's continued expansion of settlements, Gaza blockade, West Bank walling-in and wanton recourse to high-tech force would be that it's designed precisely to bludgeon, undermine and humiliate the Palestinian people until their dreams of statehood and dignity evaporate.
Then, while the U.S. and NATO were busy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Putin rebuilt his military into a powerful high-tech force.
These follow from the administration's mistaken notions that future wars will be fought by small, high-tech forces acting with superb intelligence and that the aggressive use of force is in our interest.
In another of those classic New York struggles between the future and the past, steel and wood, high tech and quaint, forces have been lining up to protect 35 Cooper Square.
Still, it's hard not to think that big tech companies in particular face an increasing political risk, now that Klein has succeeded, at least pending appeal, in forcing high tech into a 19th-century metaphor.
The state Attorney General's office, however, is free from such dirty work, and in January set up a task force on high tech crime that actively pursued new approaches to all kinds of cybercrime.
President Hu Jintao pledged yesterday to increase spending to build the military into a modern, high-tech fighting force.
Hagel is attempting to shape the military into a smaller, high-tech fighting force more adapted to current threats.
