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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Command Post: How the Military Has Adapted Since 9/11 [Watch (HLS stream): Command Post: How the Military Has Adapted Since 9/11](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SwrIDpjs.m3u8) (5:50)  _Published 2011-09-12. New York Times reporter Eric Schmitt joins CNAS and TIME in a discussion about 9/11 and the military response_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:17 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Command Post: The 9/11 Response](/video/42VvEaPL/) ### Command Post: The 9/11 Response [Command Post: The 9/11 Effect](/video/KgmASIVY/) ### Command Post: The 9/11 Effect [Command Post: Are America's Military Ambitions Too Far-Reaching?](/video/zcstYW2h/) ### Command Post: Are America's Military Ambitions Too Far-Reaching? --- ## Transcript This is command post. A series of discussion about military matters, from Time and the center for a new American security. [ SOUND ] John Getting down a little more to the weeds ten years after 9 / 11. What did the U. S. military do to adjust to this new way of fighting war? What technologies, what training have they brought to the table that's changed them and made them, so relevant to today's fight. Yeah you've really seen I think an extraordinary learning process. Over the course of the last decade. As a force that was not organized, designed, trained, or equipped to fight these wars. Really over time learn how to do these sorts of things. And you've seen. Technological changes. But the, but the, the importance I think is, is not so much in the technology. A lot of the, on men technology. The, the the drone unmanned aerial vehicles. Those all existed 10 years ago, 15 years ago. What you've seen is the organizational culture adapt to, to A point that the Air Force now trains more drone pilots every year than it trains people who actually, physically is in the airplanes that they're flying. And it, that, that change in how the Air Force views itself was as important as the technological change. You've seen an army that, that specializes in destroying. Other armies composed similarly of tanks and artillery pieces and attack helicopters, has become an army that now tracks individuals, collates a number of different intelligence sources in order to identify the precise person and the precise point in time, who has to be removed from the battlefield one way or another. You've seen an extraordinary expansion of our special operations capabilities, but also, not just, not just the special forces operators, delta force, special forces, but conventional military forces have become far better at these sort of manhunts, at removing individuals from the fight. And so it's been an enormous, Culture change. A much more capable military at the low end. While I think still maintaining a lot of the high end capacity. So I, I think after something of a slow start, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq, historians are gonna view this as a, a, an extraordinary. And active military culture that, that did what it needed to do in the nick of time both in Iraq and in Afghanistan to, to build and employ the capabilities that were most needed. And to build on John's comments I think what it also say is it particularly at the tactic level in the field you see the military not only doing what he just decribed. They're also working much more closely with other parts of the government. Government that didn't deploy, that didn't have an expeditiary mindset before them. And obviously, they've got a long way to go. But you now have analysts from virtually every intelligence agency in the field, with their equipment, providing on the ground advice and reaching back for assistance back in Washington. You've got diplomats working much more closely in the field with these things called PRTs. Eventual reconstruction teams in both Iraq and Afghanistan, where you [ UNKNOWN ] up the capabilities of diplomats and military before other agencies of the government. The agriculture department, the treasury department. Having people in the field, working on various aspects of both development and counter- terrorism that you never would have seen before 9 / 11. The lash up between the military communities and the inteligence community, probably the most important, and you see it most vividly at the special operations level, where they're It's really now, seamless, where even in the raid on the house in Abbottabad, you had the J Sock commander, the military guy, but basically reporting to the CIA director, overall, that would've just been unthinkable before 9 / 11. So, you've broken down a lot of walls, a lot of barriers, by no means is this a completed task, yet, this is still a long way to go, but I think. On certainly a tactical and operational level there've been some really starkly dramatic changes. Is there a downside John between the blurring of the lines between military and intelligence? I, I, I think that there is inside the borders of the United States and, and so I think we've done a good job of keeping that distinction separate so I, I, I have ( no period ) Every interest in the Central Intelligence Agency and the military and the department of the treasury cooperating together outside American borders against people who finance, organize, train, and employ terror groups against the United States. I think that we have to find ways to continue to preserve our civil liberties. While understanding that increasingly these terror groups, which, which may operating entirely outside the borders of the United States, may be relying upon servers that, that are located here inside this country, and that makes for some really interesting legal questions that I do think we're still just struggling to understand. And I, I'd agree with that, John. And I'd also point out, I think, What we're seeing now is on the ground, the reality, outstripping the legal the legal process that exists right now. I think if you look today at the demands for surveillance inside the United States, you go to lower Manhattan, it's completely covered with cameras, just as downtown London is. I don't think a whole lot of people, whole lot of New Yorkers, realize that. That very quietly, NYPD has been setting up these kind of cameras basically as counterterrorism measures, but I don't think we've had this kind of Pull discussion in this country yet. 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