Word: rumsfeldism
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...bold talk of "skipping a generation" of military weaponry. Bullet-headed Defense analyst/visionary Andrew Marshall, who has been scaring the calcified Pentagon hierarchy for decades, was put in charge of the review. And the administration's big guns - Bush, Cheney, Powell and once-and-current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - had the clout to make bold and necessary changes where Clinton feared to tread...
...Rumsfeld is set to deliver the Bush administration's 2002 Pentagon budget to Congress today. He's asking for $329 billion, which is $18.4 billion more than Bush had requested earlier this year and a $33 billion increase over President Bill Clinton's final defense budget, making it the largest Pentagon increase since the Reagan years...
...they do what they're told to do by the Defense secretary and above. This is a lack of civilian leadership. Clinton was terrified of the military, because of the draft and the gays-in-the-military thing. But Bush has that necessary standing, and Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld have the wherewithal and the knowledge to make big changes...
...used to it; with European leaders under electoral pressure to show green hearts, global warming will feature at summits for years to come. And so, for all the grips and grins in Ljubljana, will missile defense. Bush has asked Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to work with their Russian counterparts on a "new security framework." Those talks won't be easy; Washington may have changed the dismissive, almost contemptuous tone in which it discussed Moscow earlier in the year, but Putin has deeply held positions on missile defense and NATO enlargement--and powerful constituencies...
...next few months, the most important audience for Rumsfeld's diplomatic charm may be a fractious, self-important, Democrat-controlled body on Capitol Hill. When that exercise starts, the headlines will be about NATO enlargement and Senate worries about allied reaction to missile defense. But remember: Asia's where you'll find the real meat in the defense review...