Chapter 44: The Army We Had
1. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Town Hall Meeting in Kuwait,” December 8, 2004.
2. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Town Hall Meeting in Kuwait,” December 8, 2004.
3. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Town Hall Meeting in Kuwait,” December 8, 2004.
4. Thomas E. Ricks, “Rumsfeld Gets Earful From Troops,” Washington Post, December 9, 2004.
5. Rick Atkinson, “‘The IED Problem Is Getting Out of Control. We’ve Got to Stop the Bleeding,’” Washington Post, September 30, 2007.
6. Rick Atkinson, “‘There Was a Two-Year Learning Curve . . . and a Lot of People Died in Those Two Years,’” Washington Post, October 1, 2007.
7. Rick Atkinson, “‘The IED Problem Is Getting Out of Control. We’ve Got to Stop the Bleeding,’” Washington Post, September 30, 2007.
8. Rick Atkinson, “‘The IED Problem Is Getting Out of Control. We’ve Got to Stop the Bleeding,’” Washington Post, September 30, 2007.
9. Rick Atkinson, “‘You Can’t Armor Your Way Out of This Problem,’” Washington Post, October 2, 2007.
10. Rick Atkinson, “‘There Was a Two-Year Learning Curve . . . and a Lot of People Died in Those Two Years,’” Washington Post, October 1, 2007.
11. Rumsfeld to Myers et al., “Armored Vehicles,” December 21, 2004.
12. Rumsfeld to Myers et al., “Meeting AOR Needs,” December 14, 2004.
13. Rumsfeld to Di Rita, “Armored Vehicle Issue,” December 20, 2004.
14. Department of Defense, “Defense Transformation Update,” August 2006.
15. “USAF Faces Further Push to Boost UAVs in Afghanistan, Iraq,” janes.com, April 24, 2008.
16. Caspar W. Weinberger, speech, “The Uses of Military Power,” National Press Club, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1984; Colin L. Powell, “U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 71, no. 5 (Winter 1992), pp. 32-45.
17. Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld,” May 8, 2002.
18. Armed Forces Journal, cover page, June 2002.
19. “Crusader Talking Points,” May 1, 2002.
20. “Crusader Talking Points,” May 1, 2002.
21. “DoD—Highlights of Accomplishments: The First Five Years,” March 20, 2006; General Wayne Downing to Rumsfeld and Pace, “Special Operations Forces Assessment,” November 9, 2005.
22. Rumsfeld to Di Rita, “Briefing on SOF,” December 10, 2004; Rumsfeld to General Doug Brown et al., “Marines Special Operations Command,” February 5, 2005.
23. Francis J. Harvey to Rumsfeld, “Snowflake Response: Army Modularity—Open Issues,” February 2, 2005.
24. Robert D. Kaplan, “What Rumsfeld Got Right,” The Atlantic, July/August 2008.