Meanwhile, the Army that Rumsfeld bragged he would transform into a lithe, high-technology force is scrambling for spare parts.
So, the chip-making technology is flooding into China, raising concerns that it could help the country turn its enormous yet inefficient army into a streamlined, high-technology force.
The Australian Defence Force's seeks to be a high-technology force, and much of its equipment is scheduled to be replaced or upgraded in the near future.
As a candidate, Mr. Bush called on the Pentagon to "skip a generation" of weapons and create lighter, faster, higher-technology forces capable of defeating hard-to-reach, hard-to-find foes while shedding minimal amounts of American blood.
Speaking without notes, Mrs. Clinton said that high technology had forced people to grapple with new questions about prolonging life.
As the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq demonstrated (before the occupation and counterinsurgency war started), a relatively small, high technology American ground force, supporting air power, could dispatch the conventional army of a land power in short order.
Likewise, Chinese government has positioned advances of high technology a driving-force to continued economic achievements, and launched various high-tech policies.
It is astonishing -- and alarming -- how little it took to cripple California, the incubator of high technology and a driving force in the nation's economic growth.
We conduct our military-style campaigns, using thousands of firefighters, when we ought to find ways to combine fewer, better trained special forces with high technology.
Perhaps it's because relatively compact San Francisco has been transformed so cataclysmically in the last decade by the forces of high technology, and the disrupting influx of wealth and development, while the sprawl of Los Angeles camouflages so many of its disparities.
A SHORTAGE in the local labor force, especially involving high technology, has some economists worrying that future economic growth could be threatened.
