By Fred Kaplan
I only included the first paragraph, the rest of the article is predictable as the issue has been discussed for a while now. Whats new is Rummy's seeming counter attack..
As Donald Rumsfeld gears up for his war on the U.S. Army, the Army is preparing to fight back. I noted here two weeks ago Rumsfeld's opening May Day fusillade, in which he let it be known that his new secretary of the Army would be James Roche. The intriguing—and, from the Army's point of view, disturbing—thing about Roche is that he's a retired Navy captain who, for the past two years, has been secretary of the Air Force. As if those two facts weren't brutal enough blows to service pride, Roche is also a longtime associate of Andrew Marshall, a veteran Pentagon official who has been building a case over the past decade for a "military transformation," which involves a major restructuring—and substantial reduction—of Army forces. |