The bigger test, commanders say, will be using millions of aid dollars to roll out what they are calling "government-in-a-box, " a ready-made administration that is intended to allow the Afghan government to quickly reassert its authority in an area where its representatives didn't dare set foot earlier in the week.
Like productivity, American business prestige didn't stage a comeback until the mid-1990s, when the U.S. began to reassert its technological and economic leadership.