Is there a serious crisis/weakness in the United States technology management talent pool?

Yes, its bad. I'm not to sure about the education issue but I think that the biggest issues facing IT businesses are security, reliability, and privacy. And most managers don't know enough.

I once ran across an unencrypted credit card processing page on comptia. Org's website. Their a certification company that writes the Security+ Exam & issues the creditials.

After two weeks of writting emails back and forth to tech staff I gave up. Brian Krebs at the wsj. Com looked into the issue and they took notice.

But the upper level IT manager still refused to either admit there had been a problem or he was getting a snow job by his tech staff. Only after six months when I ran across the same problem and he saw it for himself did he admit their was a problem... and I'm pretty sure somebody got canned. But there's Credit card companies and phone companies lossing data left and right and all I can figure is the managers just don't know IT.

I mean the Pentagon this year lost nearly 4 terabytes of data on a military project. I mean we're in trouble.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.