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Chapter 25: The Agony of Surprise


  • 1Rumsfeld, “Memorandum,” May 31, 2001.

  • 2Rumsfeld, “Force Reductions,” January 11, 2002.

  • 3Rumsfeld, handwritten note, May 31, 2001.

  • 4Robert Kagan, “Indefensible Defense Budget,” Washington Post, July 20, 2001.

  • 5Al Kamen, “Donny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” Washington Post, September 7, 2001.

  • 6Rumsfeld, speech, “DOD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kicko — Bureaucracy to Battlefield,” September 10, 2001.

  • 7“Rumsfeld Declares War on Bureaucracy,” Voice of America, September 10, 2001.

  • 8Rumsfeld, speech, “DOD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kicko — Bureaucracy to Battlefield,” September 10, 2001. 

  • 9Rumsfeld, “Pearl Harbor Post-Mortem,” July 23, 2001.

  • 10Thomas Schelling, foreword, in Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962).

  • 11Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 450.

  • 12Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. 417-18.

  • 13Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 14Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 15Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 16Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 17Lawrence Di Rita, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 18The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (NewYork: W.W. Norton, 2004), p. 43.

  • 19Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 20Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 21General Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.), with Malcolm McConnell, Eyes on the Horizon: Serving on the Front Lines of National Security (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), pp. 157–58.

  • 22The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (NewYork: W.W. Norton, 2004), p. 208.

  • 23Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 24Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 25Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 26Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 27Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 431.

  • 28Rumsfeld, remarks, “On the Awarding of the George Catlett Marshall Medal,” October 17, 1984.

  • 29Rumsfeld, “Weakening of Deterrent,” December 10, 2001.

  • 30Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 31Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 32Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 33The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (NewYork: W.W. Norton, 2004), pp. 266–72.

  • 34Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.

  • 35Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing on Pentagon Attack,” September 11, 2001.

  • 36Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing on Pentagon Attack,” September 11, 2001.

  • 37Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing on Pentagon Attack,” September 11, 2001.

  • 38Steven Erlanger, “European Nations Stand with U.S., Ready to Respond,” New York Times, September 12, 2001; Michael White and Patrick Wintour, “Blair Calls for World Fight Against Terror,” The Guardian, September 12, 2001; Jean-Marie Colombani, “Nous sommes tous Américains,” Le Monde, September 13, 2001.

  • 39Howard Schneider and Lee Hockstader, “As Mideast Ocials Oer Condolences, Some Arabs Rejoice,” Washington Post, September 12, 2001; Neil MacFarquhar, “Condemnations from Arab Governments, but Widely Dierent Attitudes on the Street,” New York Times, September 12, 2001; Saudi Embassy, “Kingdom Condemns Attacks on United States,” Press Release, September 11, 2001.

  • 40Department of Defense, “Saddam Hussein: In His Own Words—Quotes from Saddam and Iraq’s Regime-Controlled Media,” October 22, 2002; Borzou Daragahi and David Lamb, “Violence Marked His Rise, Rule and Fall,” Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2006; Cameron S. Brown, “The Shot Seen Around the World: The Middle East Reacts to September 11th,” Middle East Review of International Aairs, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2001.

  • 41Department of Defense, “Saddam Hussein: In His Own Words—Quotes from Saddam and Iraq’s Regime-Controlled Media,” October 22, 2002.

  • 42Rumsfeld to Feith, “Mubarak,” September 13, 2001.

  • 43Rumsfeld to Feith, “Foreign Reaction to Events September 11, 2001,” September 14, 2001.

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