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	Rumsfeld doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It would be considered Rumsfeld's own take on RMA (Revolution in Military Affairs).
		With the apparent success of the Rumsfeld doctrine in Afghanistan, Rumsfeld pushed for the extension of the doctrine in Iraq.
		The doctrine entails a heavy reliance on air-strikes to replace a lack of ground forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rumsfeld_doctrine (524 words)

	TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 10. Rumsfeld's Folly. Lawrence J. Korb. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Under Rumsfeld, Pentagon policy is to use advanced new technologies to reduce the military's need for large numbers of forces to wage military campaigns.
		Moreover, to avoid enlarging the active military, Rumsfeld has resisted calls to move peacekeeping forces such as military police and civil-affairs specialists from the reserves to the active force, even though the need for them, under the "Bush doctrine," is active and long-term.
		Under the Powell doctrine, which Rumsfeld jettisoned in his attempt to transform the military, American combat commanders would estimate how much force would be needed to accomplish an objective.
	www.prospect.org /print/V14/10/korb-l.html (2210 words)

	Rumsfeld Doctrine
		Rumsfeld's memorandum, written in March 2001 but updated as recently as this weekend, said the nation's leaders must never "dumb down" a mission to gain support from the public, Congress, the United Nations or allies.
		Rumsfeld wrote that American lives should be risked only when a clear national interest is at stake, when the mission is achievable, when all required resources are committed for the duration of combat — and only after the nation's leadership has marshaled public support.
		Rumsfeld to discuss his thinking were made in the intervening months, and he agreed this weekend to provide the current version of his guidelines.
	www.geocities.com /tom_slouck/iraq/rumsfeld_doctrine.html (1488 words)

	The Defense Secretary We Have (washingtonpost.com)
		But surely Don Rumsfeld is not the defense secretary Bush should want to have for the remainder of his second term.
		Indeed, Rumsfeld assured the troops who have been cobbling together their own armor, "It's interesting." In fact, "if you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up.
		Rumsfeld acknowledged this last week, after a fashion: "I mean, everyone likes to assign responsibility to the top person and I guess that's fine." Except he fails to take responsibility.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A132-2004Dec14.html (839 words)

	Winamop.com Funny?
		Under the Rumsfeld doctrine, America has sent 3 Marines and a bugle to conquer one of the world's oldest civilisations, a feat to be accomplished by the application of 'Shock and Awe'.
		The Rumsfeld Doctrine assumes the self-evident superiority and popularity of American models of society and culture.
		The Rumsfeld Doctrine echoes the famous dictum 'Might is Right', believing military superiority to be a judgement of the Lord - in this it is identical to Israel, and at least the rhetoric of Saddam Hussein himself.
	www.winamop.com /rum.htm (258 words)

	Editorials from The Roanoke Times-Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of shirking
		To hear Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tell it, he's just been playing the hand he was dealt in Iraq.
		But the U.S. military is Rumsfeld's domain, and he was a key proponent of the war, of minimal troops and light armor, and of maximal optimism about postwar conditions.
		Rumsfeld replied: Well, armor isn't all it's cracked up to be.
	www.roanoke.com /editorials\15186.html (369 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rumsfeld believes that, "while arms control could be effective at times, it's not where you want to put your marbles, because bad guys break agreements," says Ken Adelman, former director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
		Rumsfeld considers the 1972 anti-ballistic missile treaty outdated and an obstacle to one of his top agenda goals: US deployment of a multi-billion-dollar missile-defense shield.
		Today, as Rumsfeld returns to the Pentagon, vowing to shake out vestiges of the cold-war mentality, he knows firsthand how daunting the task is. "It's hard for men who have spent their adult lives living with cold-war think in their mindset," he told an interviewer recently.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/2001/05/17/fp1s3-csm.shtml (1395 words)

	The Rumsfeld Doctrine - @forums
		Rumsfeld told a Senate committee that Pentagon lawyers had approved methods such as sleep deprivation and dietary changes as well as rules permitting prisoners to be made to assume stress positions.
		Rumsfeld replied that the Geneva Convention applies to all prisoners held in Iraq, but not to those held in Guantanamo Bay, where detainees captured in the global war on terror are held.
		Rumsfeld and other Pentagon officials have said the abuses in Abu Ghraib were unauthorized actions taken by a handful of personnel, and Maj. Gen.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=232533 (4176 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Donald Rumsfeld
		Becker from 1960 to 1962, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30, and was re-elected in 1964, 1966, and 1968.
		Rumsfeld led the military planning and execution of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
		Rumsfeld pushed hard to send as small a force as possible to Iraq, a concept codified as the Rumsfeld doctrine.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld (2461 words)

	Yorkshire CND - The Doctrine of Digital War - 7/4/03
		The blueprint Rumsfeld wound up with is a blend of his ideas for War Lite and the more traditional desires of Tommy Franks, the tough-talking general who heads the U.S. Central Command.
		Rumsfeld's new-wavers think massing huge numbers of land troops isn't always needed in an era when powerful networked-computing systems and unerringly accurate munitions can do much of the dirty work.
		And in the end, the vaunted Rumsfeld Doctrine may be perceived as little more than a flexible road map for doing whatever is needed to win wars in the future.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/digitalwar.htm (1481 words)

	World Tribune.com:>'Rumsfeld Doctrine' catches left-leaning S. Korean government off guard
		One of these was the Powell Doctrine, the concept after our miseries in Vietnam: the U.S. would never again enter a conflict without overwhelming force.
		Rumsfeld has just toured East and South Asia, almost ignored by media preoccupied with Iraq, the prison scandal, the anniversary of D Day, and the death of Ronald Reagan.
		But Rumsfeld’s trip came amidst a continuing crisis created by the development of weapons of mass destruction by a pariah state in North Korea.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2004/s6_06.html (868 words)

	'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Powell Doctrine story, concluded
		Rumsfeld's concept really was for a "stealth force", one that could pop up to threaten or attack a potential foe with an absolute minimum of advance notice.
		Rumsfeld's insistence on using only a lean, stealthy force was matched, as we know, by what can only be described as a criminal insouciance toward the responsibilities of post-conflict ("Phase 4") operations.
		The Powell Doctrine was the doctrine that dominated in US official thinking from the end of the Vietnam War, through the end of the global Cold War, and down to 2003.
	justworldnews.org /archives/001657.html (5374 words)

	Dataquest : Top Stories : The Doctrine of Digital War
		When defence secretary Donald H Rumsfeld, mindful of America’s two-month rout of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, sat down with war planners to prepare for a US-led thrust into Iraq, he had a vision of how the unfolding conflict would play out.
		The Rumsfeld approach is in sharp contrast with the "overwhelming force" doctrine outlined by then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L Powell prior to the 1991 Gulf War.
		And in the end, the vaunted Rumsfeld Doctrine may be perceived as little more than a flexible roadmap for doing whatever is needed to win wars in the future.
	www.dqindia.com /content/top_stories/103042203.asp (1593 words)

	LETTERS FROM A WARBLOGGER: DEAR DONALD RUMSFELD. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		the imminent swell of arrogance and pomposity on your part that is sure to accompany any vindication of the so-called "Rumsfeld Doctrine." I had readied a demonstration that there is in fact no novelty about your "doctrine" whatever, consonant as it is the timeless American pursuit of hegemony.
		Rumsfeld, as fully in control now, just as you were on that remote date.
		Rumsfeld, but even you know it to be a transient thing.
	www.blacktable.com /olivier030410.htm (541 words)

	United States - Iraq - Rumsfeld - Worldpress.org
		Rumsfeld, despite his traditional aversion to the media—he had tried to wage the Afghan war as secretively as possible, convinced that the best battles were the invisible ones—decided it was a good idea.
		Rumsfeld, a former wrestler, Air Force pilot, and successful businessman and politician in the habit of thinking big, saw the endless flow of fragmented but more or less reliable information as a means to counter Iraqi propaganda.
		Rumsfeld instructed the general to limit the operation to 60,000 troops.
	www.worldpress.org /Europe/1079.cfm (1893 words)

	The Rumsfeld War Doctrine Fails
		Donald Rumsfeld has pointed out more than once that while there are only 134,000 US troops in Iraq, 20,000 or so mercenaries, 11,000 British troops, and the chump-change window-dressing of the other members of the so-called coalition, there are 2.4 million Americans who are in some manner or another officially under arms.
		Range and lethality are the stuff of conventional military doctrine, and that doctrine is aimed at the imposition of one state's will upon another.
		It is a social and political organization first, and one that counterposes a synthesis of pre-modernity, modernity, and post-modernity against the "radical technological optimism" of Donald Rumsfeld's military.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/051904_rumsfeld_war.html (1972 words)

	BW Online \| May 8, 2003 \| What the Military Needs Most: Balance
		To call Iraq a victory for a so-called Rumsfeld Doctrine is far-fetched on several counts.
		Under the Rumsfeld Doctrine, however, the kind of "decapitating" aerial campaign launched at the beginning of the conflict should have caused the Iraqi regime to collapse.
		Ever since Rumsfeld came into office, he has fought with the generals and admirals about the pace of transformation.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/may2003/tc2003058_5297_tc068.htm (1197 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Profile: Donald Rumsfeld
		Winning the war in Iraq appeared to be another success for the Rumsfeld doctrine of deploying lighter, less numerous, but technologically highly capable forces.
		Mr Rumsfeld has also faced the task of redirecting the strategy and arsenal of the world's largest military power to take on the invisible, stateless enemy of global terrorism.
		In it, Mr Rumsfeld said that Iraq and Afghanistan would be a "long, hard slog" and that the US record against al-Qaeda was mixed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3690341.stm (918 words)

	A Reality Check for the Rumsfeld Doctrine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Proponents of this view pour on the accolades for Mr Rumsfeld: he is the most influential cabinet secretary since Kissinger, the strongest defence secretary since McNamara, the most creative battle strategist since MacArthur, the most refreshingly blunt politician since Churchill.
		They also suggest that the doctrine of overwhelming force espoused by Colin Powell, secretary of state, will soon be replaced by a new Rumsfeld doctrine emphasising high technology, special operations units and sheer brainpower to defeat future foes.
		Indeed, it is doubtful that Mr Rumsfeld himself favours change on the scale advocated by some of his admirers.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/ohanlon/20030429.htm (794 words)

	News from Agape Press
		The author says Secretary Rumsfeld has proven to be the right man at the right time.
		Rumsfeld, he says, has shown decisiveness and a willingness to declare a war on terror -- directly contrary to the methods employed by the Clinton Administration to handle the rising al-Qaida threat in the 1990s.
		The author and journalist says through that doctrine, Rumsfeld has shown the militant Islamic world that George W. Bush's United States is not Bill Clinton's.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/3/112004g.asp (331 words)

	Salon Directory
		"Metrics" is one of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld 's obsessions.
		Against the advice of senior officers of the military, Rumsfeld applied his doctrine of using a light combat force in the invasion of Iraq.
		But Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives assumed that there would be no long occupation because democracy would spontaneously flower.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/blumenthal/2005/01/14/pentagon_suppression/index.html (834 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Iraq insurgency forces Pentagon rethink on ability to fight two wars at once
		The Iraq counter-insurgency is forcing the Pentagon to question its military doctrine that requires forces to be able to fight two major wars at the same time, it was claimed yesterday.
		From then on, the military would have to defend the homeland from terrorism, keep a presence capable of deterring conflict in four critical regions, fight and quickly win two major wars and win so decisively in one of them as to remove the enemy regime.
		Mr Rumsfeld sought to speed up the process of "military transformation" from cold war forces to more agile troops with advanced technology.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522144,00.html (702 words)

	THE GLOBAL BATTLEFIELD - WE ARE STANDING ON IT
		There cannot be any doubt, after studying this so-called strategy document that the content was developed by the metrics-worshipping sycophants of Donald Rumsfeld, and that Rumsfeld added the cartoon-like Bush quotes as a series of kisses planted firmly on his boss's ass.
		The military is already driving the national debt and current account deficit through the stratosphere, and the war in Iraq's cost is being borne in larger and larger part by the real target of US international intrigue, China, who now owns $230 billion in US debt.
		Unless we are prepared to accept that everyone at the Pentagon, from Rumsfeld down, is clinically insane, we cannot take this document seriously as a plan, but only as a basis for using an emergency as the pretext for rounding up and neutralizing their political opposition.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/070805_global_battlefield.shtml (7039 words)

	Workers World April 10, 2003: Iraqi resistance and the Rumsfeld strategy
		The capitalist media suddenly became brave enough to criticize the Rumsfeld strategy--but only because they were speaking for a large section of the military brass who have been opposed to this strategy for over a year.
		Such an outrageously aggressive and delusionary political doctrine, which proclaims the intention of U.S. imperialism to dominate the globe and its population of 6 billion people, must of necessity have an enabling military doctrine that can envision such a world conquest within the means available to U.S. capitalism.
		This, of course, is a necessary military doctrine for any faction of the ruling class that dreams of establishing a world empire.
	www.workers.org /ww/2003/war0410.php (1884 words)

	Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Rumsfeld political obituaries that were last being tweaked in the days before September 11 2001 were dusted off.
		A Pentagon spending bonanza on Mr Rumsfeld’s pet priorities, such as special forces, high-tech bombs and other wizardry, and anything that enhances troop mobility, is on the horizon, taking the US military even further ahead of even the best-equipped Armed Forces in the rest of the world.
		Mr Rumsfeld’s targeting of Syria with claims that it has been sending military aid to Iraq is the opening of a new phase of “forward-leaning”, take-no-prisoners US diplomacy that infuriates European leaders and scares those in the Gulf.
	www.warblogging.com /warfarking/mirror/1050144583.html (1193 words)

	Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: No Rumsfeld wars, but no Rumsfeld peace either
		His take on the Powell Doctrine is simply out of date and here's why: Powell was never about nation-building or the second-half effort, and his overwhelming force doctrine was about keeping the warfighting first-half effort as short as possible in order to leave the playing field as quickly as possible.
		Friedman may mock Rumsfeld with the "Rumsfeld Doctrine" of "just enough troops to lose," but his head's way up his ass on that one.
		The Rumsfeld Doctrine is called using the information age to tilt the playing field overwhelming in the U.S. favor, thus reducing the number of soldiers we need to put at risk on the ground during war.
	www.thomaspmbarnett.com /weblog/archives2/001955.html (368 words)

	Martini Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rumsfeld and his spokesman’s response that “there are hundreds of generals” in the military, insinuating that these five represent a small minority is wholly disingenuous.
		One of the hallmarks of the Doctrine is ignoring the well-known political limits of military force, and underestimating the enemy.
		Rumsfeld is fighting to preserve an ideology, one which has thus far proved impervious to objective fact and unable to recognize its own failures.
	martinirepublic.com (3576 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| 'Fight light, fight fast' theory advances
		Mr Rumsfeld is a key supporter of a new warfare doctrine called "Rapid Decisive Operations".
		Unofficially known as "the Rumsfeld Doctrine", it has replaced the "Powell Doctrine" of using overwhelming force.
		It remains to be seen whether Mr Rumsfeld will be able to push through his transformation agenda in the teeth of opposition from the entrenched bureaucracy in the Pentagon and resistance on Capitol Hill to the scrapping of pet projects.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/14/wrums14.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/14/ixnewstop.html (812 words)

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