[WOSG]

Rumsfeld is a great manager. Glad he is keeping the heat up to push innovative and improvement. I can see why he became CEO in the private sector.

The 300,000 members of the DoD red-tape bureaucracy is equal to our army combat strength. It boggles the mind to allow uniformed folks be desk sitters when any odern corporation has streamlined and re-engineered that kind of bureaucracy out of there.

And I like how he got the Germans to pitch in there with our bases, guarding it with 3000 of their troops. Good one. next up: getting them to do kosovo without us. :-)

Lastly, Navy thinking about cutting ship crews in half with technology? I always wondered why modern ships needed so many crew members. Glad on that too.

But the time Rummy's done, we could have a military with 2X uniformed 'tooth' and 1/2X bureaucratic 'tail'. Killer.

[kms61]

I'm baffled at Rumsfeld's insistence on not expanding the Army's manpower. He seems to be trying everything BUT the obvious choice. It's getting harder and harder to dismiss the theory that he has some grudge against the Army.