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Paper: Rumsfeld being quietly undermined by own military
RAW STORY
Published: Monday April 17, 2006
Five years ago, when Donald Rumsfeld took over at the Pentagon, he
quickly moved to assert greater civilian control over senior military
officers.
But now, well into the Bush administration's second term, there are
signs that his firm grip on the Defense Department is slipping as some
uniformed officers increasingly chart their own course, the WALL
STREET JOURNAL reports on registration-restricted Monday page ones.
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Well before the recent calls by a half-dozen retired Army and Marine
Corps generals for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation, there was an increasing
challenge to his ideas about warfare from within the senior officer
ranks...
While there is no sign the military leadership inside the Pentagon is
ignoring or defying Mr. Rumsfeld's orders, senior military officials
in a number of cases seem more willing to go their own way, even if
that means publicly questioning or quietly trying to undo some of Mr.
Rumsfeld's initiatives.
"Many of his war-fighting concepts are turning out to be impractical.
People are walking away from them," said Robert Killebrew, a retired
colonel who spent much of his career as a strategist within top
commands inside the Army.
He described Mr. Rumsfeld as "increasingly a spent force."
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Rummy is a non-person.
Harry
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