The Rumsfeld Papers

1. Robin Moore, The Hunt for bin Laden: Task Force Dagger (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 28.

2. General Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 303.

3. Lieutenant General Michael DeLong, USMC (Ret.), with Noah Lukeman, Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 40.

4. Vernon Loeb and Susan B. Glasser, “Tajikistan Allows U.S. to Assess 3 Air Bases,” Washington Post, November 4, 2001.

5. Michael Wines, “Rumsfeld Visits Russia and Central Asia to Bolster Coalition,” New York Times, November 4, 2001.

6. Celia W. Dugger, “U.S. and India Map Path to Military Cooperation; More Arms Sales Are Seen,” New York Times, November 6, 2001.

7. Steven Lee Myers, “Clinton to Impose Penalties on India Over Atomic Tests,” New York Times, May 13, 1998.

8. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, “Phone Call from an Aircraft w/POTUS,” November 6, 2001.

9. Peter Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Why Time Is of the Essence in the Afghan Campaign,” October 12, 2001.

10. Michael R. Gordon, “Key Players Confer at U.N. on a Post-Taliban Regime,” New York Times, November 12, 2001.

11. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Kabul,” November 13, 2001.

12. Lieutenant General Michael DeLong, USMC (Ret.), with Noah Lukeman, Inside CentCom: The Unvarnished Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 53.

13. Thom Shanker, “Rumsfeld Pays Call on Troops and Afghans,” New York Times, December 17, 2001.

14. Department of Defense speech transcript, “Address to the Men and Women of Fort Bragg/Pope AFB,” November 21, 2001.

15.  Rumsfeld to Tenet, “Ali,” December 20, 2001.

16.  Rumsfeld, “Discuss w/Franks,” January 4, 2002.

17. Evan Thomas, “Into Thin Air,” Newsweek, September 3, 2007; Peter Bergen, “The Battle for Tora Bora,” The New Republic, December 22, 2009.

18. Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo, Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander (New York: Crown, 2005).

19. Peter Rodman to Rumsfeld, “Further Report on Afghan Talks in Bonn,” November 27, 2001.

20. Thom Shanker, “Rumsfeld Pays Call on Troops and Afghans,” New York Times, December 17, 2001.

21. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Media Availability en route to Brussels,” December 17, 2001.

22. Vernon Loeb, “Rumsfeld: Mission Far From Over; Defense Secretary Meets Officials, U.S. Troops in Afghanistan,” Washington Post, December 17, 2001.

23. Vernon Loeb, “Rumsfeld: Mission Far From Over; Defense Secretary Meets Officials, U.S. Troops in Afghanistan,” Washington Post, December 17, 2001.

24. Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham, Beyond Hell and Back: How America’s Special Operations Forces Became the World’s Greatest Fighting Unit (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007), p. 215.

25. Michael Ignatieff, “Nation-Building Lite,” New York Times Magazine, July 28, 2002; Simon Robinson, “Karzai’s Kabul: Fit for a King?,” Time, April 18, 2002.

26. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “US Role in Gardez Situation—or, more broadly, whether or not the US should intervene in Afghan vs. Afghan conflicts,” May 10, 2002.

27. Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “US Role in Gardez Situation—or, more broadly, whether or not the US should intervene in Afghan vs. Afghan conflicts,” May 10, 2002.

28. Douglas J. Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), pp. 145–46.

29. Vernon Loeb, “Rumsfeld: Mission Far From Over; Defense Secretary Meets Officials, U.S. Troops in Afghanistan,” Washington Post, December 17, 2001.