If disaster comes through lack of preparedness, the fault necessarily lies far less with the men under whom the disaster actually occurs than with those to whose wrong-headedness or short-sighted indifference in time past the lack of preparedness is due.
This passage assigns blame for national disasters stemming from a lack of preparedness not to those on the front lines, but to past leaders whose indifference caused the deficiency.
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