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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.

  • 5Rick Atkinson, “‘The IED Problem Is Getting Out of Control. We’ve Got to Stop the Bleeding,’” Washington Post, September 30, 2007.

  • 6Rick Atkinson, “‘There Was a Two-Year Learning Curve . . . and a Lot of People Died in Those Two Years,’” Washington Post, October 1, 2007.

  • 7Rick Atkinson, “‘The IED Problem Is Getting Out of Control. We’ve Got to Stop the Bleeding,’” Washington Post, September 30, 2007.

  • 8Rick Atkinson, “‘The IED Problem Is Getting Out of Control. We’ve Got to Stop the Bleeding,’” Washington Post, September 30, 2007.

  • 9Rick Atkinson, “‘You Can’t Armor Your Way Out of This Problem,’” Washington Post, October 2, 2007.

  • 10Rick Atkinson, “‘There Was a Two-Year Learning Curve . . . and a Lot of People Died in Those Two Years,’” Washington Post, October 1, 2007.

  • 11Rumsfeld to Myers et al., “Armored Vehicles,” December 21, 2004.

  • 12Rumsfeld to Myers et al., “Meeting AOR Needs,” December 14, 2004.

  • 13Rumsfeld to Di Rita, “Armored Vehicle Issue,” December 20, 2004.

  • 14Department of Defense, “Defense Transformation Update,” August 2006.

  • 15. “USAF Faces Further Push to Boost UAVs in Afghanistan, Iraq,” janes.com, April 24, 2008.

  • 16Caspar 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.

  • 17Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld,” May 8, 2002.

  • 18Armed Forces Journal, cover page, June 2002.

  • 19Crusader Talking Points,” May 1, 2002.

  • 20Crusader Talking Points,” May 1, 2002.

  • 21DoD—Highlights of Accomplishments: The First Five Years,” March 20, 2006; General Wayne Downing to Rumsfeld and Pace, “Special Operations Forces Assessment,” November 9, 2005.

  • 22Rumsfeld to Di Rita, “Briefing on SOF,” December 10, 2004; Rumsfeld to General Doug Brown et al., “Marines Special Operations Command,” February 5, 2005.

  • 23Francis 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.

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