Precisely because the U.S. military and economy are the most advanced and the most dependent on information technology, they are also the most vulnerable. The greatest U.S. weakness is the absence of a global strategy. The Clinton administration not only has never put forward a clear strategic view of the world, it is hostile to the very idea of strategy. That is a truly revealing and frightening comment if he actually said it. The United States has the biggest, strongest, most expensive, best educated, best equipped military in the world, but it is strategically brainless at the top because the President and his advisers think that agility is a substitute for strategy.
Agility is necessary, but it is reactive.
If you have no strategy, you are very likely to become part of someone else's strategy.