Europe's armies have made no progress yet towards topping up their arsenals with the sort of equipment needed to sustain a long, tough military engagement: the means of moving an army swiftly into place by air and sea, mobile air-defence systems, sharp-eyed high-tech reconnaissance, and so on.True, some big orders are in the pipeline.
His then foreign-policy adviser, Condoleezza Rice, declared: "We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten".Slimmer, not betterUnder the "transformation" envisaged by Mr Bush's defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, the army would be slimmed down and money invested in high-tech weapons, reconnaissance systems and data links.
Eventually, Breedlove got some of the high-tech surveillance and reconnaissance platforms he'd asked for, but they merely amplified what senior military planners were beginning to realize: today's Russian military is far more advanced than previously understood.
He said Ukraine desperately needed hi-tech radio, radar and reconnaissance equipment to stop Ukrainian soldiers having their communications intercepted and improve battlefield efficiency.
Outside the body, the tech could be used in much bigger reconnaissance and rescue missions.
The military shopping list includes 30 amphibious vehicles, three unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and six high-tech F-35A stealth fighters.
Considering the number of things that can go wrong, his reconnaissance methods are surprisingly low-tech: he scouts a building on the skyscraper Web site Emporis.com and then shows up at the site.
In the barren terrain along the Afghan border, elite American soldiers are using intelligence sent from American reconnaissance units in Afghanistan and high-tech surveillance overhead to track Qaeda fighters crossing into Pakistan.
The high-tech surveillance aircraft are arguably the most advanced manned reconnaissance aircraft in the world, and they're Canada's secret weapon in outsmarting ISIS' evolving tactics.
The high-tech surveillance aircraft are arguably the most advanced manned reconnaissance aircraft in the world, and they're Canada's secret weapon in outsmarting the Islamic State's evolving tactics.
Residents, pondering whether it was the reconnaissance plane promised by the Pentagon, seemed unsurprised that the gunman might have eluded still another hi-tech search.
