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To: MrLucky who wrote (3199)	1/29/2004 9:19:07 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) of 90947

Further to my comments and link re: Mollie Ivins, I came across this article from 4/03: slate.msn.com The thrust is that Rumsfeld should junk the Apache. The interesting part is the following: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is gearing up for his next war—not with the Syrians or the North Koreans but with the hidebound generals of the U.S. Army. These are the generals who criticized Rumsfeld's battle plan while Gulf War II was still raging and who beat back his efforts, over the past few years, to "transform" the Army into a lighter, lither fighting force. With Rumsfeld's star rising and the generals' tarnished, he can be expected to mount a new offensive on their bureaucratic turf at the first opportunity Now, compare the foregoing to this excerpt from the Ivins column: • I think there is one clear lesson here, and it involves our military: Those who have been arguing for the development of rapid deployment and rapid response capability have been in the right all along. Those of you who have followed this debate or read William Greider’s excellent book on the subject, Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace, know that we have been trying to follow two strategies simultaneously and not doing either very well. The defense industry is, as always, pushing us to spend incredible amounts on advanced military hardware, which often doesn’t work terribly well: witness, the famous Apache helicopter fiasco. Time for President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen to weigh in heavily on the side of the brighter brains in the Pentagon who have been arguing for reshaping the military so that it is more flexible rather than more muscle-bound. Sounds to me like Rumsfeld should be Ivins' hero, eh?<g>

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