Word: rumsfeldism
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...Rumsfeld's face was streaming with tears after he saw Seabiscuit...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talked to TIME's Mark Thompson last week about his campaign to wring more fighting power out of the U.S. military without increasing troop size. He said he had proposed some 40 ways to do so in an 11-page memo now being circulated among senior Pentagon officials. Rumsfeld spoke by phone while on a plane headed to an undisclosed location. Excerpts...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld got himself into trouble earlier this year after several lawmakers called for a return to the draft as a way of opposing the looming war with Iraq. In response, Rumsfeld declared that the 16 million Americans who were conscripted from 1917 to 1973 had added "no value, no advantage really, to the U.S. armed services over any sustained period of time." Rumsfeld apologized after veterans groups criticized his comments. But Pentagon officials stand by his key message: draftees tend to serve shorter terms than volunteers, so the armed services get less use out of their training...
...second of Rumsfeld's aims--to get more non-U.S. troops into Iraq--is no simpler to achieve. A multinational force led by Poland will soon begin operations south of Baghdad, but the U.S. would also like to see contributions from Turkey, India and Pakistan, all of which have effective armed forces and two of which--Turkey and Pakistan--are Islamic states. At present, however, the U.S. and Britain are the legal occupying power in Iraq, and most nations likely to be able to send useful forces will not do so unless the U.N has more authority there. After...
...strong ones. "They're going after softer targets and what we consider to be more of a terrorist-type activity," said Odierno. "The next step, to my mind, would be something like car bombs and suicide bombers." In such warfare, the initiative lies with the attacker, which is why Rumsfeld has always insisted that in the war against terrorism, the U.S. must go out and hunt down its adversaries...