"I get the sense that the microscope on the program is leading to greater selectivity in ordering strikes," he said.
Indeed, the drone program is leading to the Talibanization of vast tribal areas and the radicalization of people who could otherwise be America's allies in the fight against terrorism in Yemen.
Initiatives like the U.K. Biobank (500,000 patient records), Genomics England (100,000 genomes sequenced), HipSci (stem cells) and the NHS care.data program are leading the way in creating centralized data repositories for public health and therapeutic research.
In addition, U.S. air power, especially the White House-run drone assassination program, is leading the way globally when it comes to degrading the sovereignty of national borders.
Projects supported by this program are leading to the development of sustainable training opportunities for informatics and eight of ten Peruvian fellows trained at the University of Washington are now developing informatics programs and an information infrastructure in Peru.
And meanwhile, austerity programs are leading to severe slumps in Greece and elsewhere.
The Democrats — traditionally the party of "yes" to new programs — are leading the effort in the House to cut spending.
Although these large-scale programs are leading the way, it's smaller, grassroots startups that will ensure the delivery of high-speed internet to every home in America.
Boston-based SpeechWorks, which is set to go public at the end of July, is a 6-year-old software firm whose programs are leading the speech technology market.
With unpaid student debt approaching $1.2 trillion amid stagnating wages, a combination of higher debt loads and little-used default-prevention programs is leading to rising defaults and fueling government and financial industry concerns that student debt risks hindering economic growth in the coming years.
