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"In 2003 Donald Harold Rumsfeld, 71, was the very word of war: he planned it, he sold it, he strutted through a postwar landscape that is still far from tidy. Armed with a new doctrine of pre-emptive warfare, he spurred the military to fight lighter and faster than it had ever fought before, rewriting the battlefield playbook for perhaps a decade or more. Energized by hard work and spurred by his stubborn refusal to bend, he has extended the Pentagon's clout on all kinds of nonmilitary matters, from civil liberties at home to the conduct of diplomacy abroad. His power has at times verged on the absolute, and even some White House officials wonder whether anyone can rein him in. Yet for all his apparent certainty, he found a way, in his exquisite fashion, to make clear that he was under no illusions about the limits of America's new global war on terrorism. As a result, his campaign to transform the military is just beginning."
Rumsfeld is arguably the most important person in government aside from the president. He clearly is the most intelligent cabinent official since Kissinger and the most innovative SecDef since MacNamara. Has there been a more effective SecDef ever?
Rumsfeld is arguably the most important person in government aside from the president. He clearly is the most intelligent cabinent official since Kissinger and the most innovative SecDef since MacNamara. Has there been a more effective SecDef ever?
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