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...kill some of the Pentagon's costly "legacy" programs. In a September 1999 speech, he said the military should take advantage of the cold war's end "to skip a generation of technology" and move on to futuristic weapons without necessarily buying all those in development. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came in pledging to remake the military. "The U.S. defense establishment must be transformed to address our new circumstance," he said as he took the job for a second time. Pentagon corridors were buzzing last summer about how Rumsfeld planned to transform the military--cutting entire Army divisions, scuttling aircraft...
...officials there had not seen the tough language before it was delivered. Powell had seen it, but he is not a natural infighter, and in recent weeks he has lost ground on a series of debates with hard-liners like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over Administration policy toward the Middle East (Powell wanted greater engagement) and treatment of al-Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay (Powell wanted to be more faithful to the Geneva Convention). But Bush himself had pushed for linking the three countries, and Powell appears not to have contested it. At his morning...
...group of detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay knew one thing: they would not be treated as prisoners of war. But U.S. officials acknowledged that the decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to Taliban fighters, but not al-Qaeda members, would not materially affect their circumstances. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the step was rather intended as a "precedent for the future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access to food or medical aid. At least five...
Ruggiero said she walked in honor of Donald Kauth, who worked on the 90th floor of the World Trade Center and was father of 2000-2001 Brown women’s hockey captain Kathleen Kauth...
Famed historian David Herbert Donald was the first to suggest that Harvard should house the Vidal collection. Donald, who is Warren professor of American history emeritus, had become acquainted with Vidal while writing a biography on Abraham Lincoln, the subject of one of Vidal’s best-known novels...