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...punch," says an Air Force commander. "But you usually don't get lucky, so you just keep pressing on." Pentagon officials have said some ground operations aimed at crushing the Taliban and al-Qaeda may not get under way until next spring. "We're not setting timetables," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. In a remarkable admission, Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem said, "I am a bit surprised at how doggedly they're hanging onto power. We definitely need to have patience," he added. "This is going to be a long, long campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules of Engagement | 10/28/2001 | See Source »

...Taliban would surely fall, he could not be sure the effort to get bin Laden would succeed, his comments were splashed all over the world's press. Rumsfeld rushed to contain the damage, later saying at a Pentagon briefing "we hope and we expect to get him." Still, if Donald Rumsfeld can be mistaken for a defeatist, the Bush administration has its work cut out in preparing Americans for a protracted conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Aren't Push-Overs | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...stripped to its essence, this new form of war is as old as the hills. Victory still requires one group of men to find and kill another. Technology can't do it all. "The cruise missiles and bombers are not going to solve this problem," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week. In an assessment of the Soviet Union's defeat in Afghanistan written for the U.S. Army in 1996, a retired Afghan general and his American co-author were blunt. "A guerrilla war," they wrote, "is not a war of technology against peasantry. Rather, it is a contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down And Dirty | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...worried about powder in a package. The Governor of Tennessee put a $10,000 bounty on the head of anyone calling in a bomb hoax because the schools were having to be evacuated so often. A pilot returned to the gate because a passenger switched seats too many times. Donald Trump was reported to be shopping for parachutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadow Of Fear | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...Noted "We're not running out of targets, Afghanistan is." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, explaining that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have little infrastructure left to be destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

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