The Rumsfeld Papers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

21. General 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

33. The 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.

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

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

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

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

38. Steven 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.

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

40. Department 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 Affairs, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2001.

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

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

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