Globalization has been energized by several forces, including breakthroughs in information technology and basic science; the tendency of market process to spill across national borders; and the liberalization  ...  Mandeles flatly asserts that the command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technologies central to network-centric warfare will not translate to war-fighting  ...  Leaders in the fight against illicit activity need to employ the latest technology from the fields of packaging, tagging and tracking, biometrics, and surveillance.  ... 

Areas such as science and technology have material and military rewards that are too obvious for politicians to start interfering in the way they are researched, although they will readily direct funding  ...  The NS civil administration and SS followed the advancing troops.  ...  The historians, who have been active here, have been drawing up a balance sheet of their own for the historical sciences in the GDR.  ...