Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talked to TIME's Mark Thompson last week about his campaign to wring more fighting power out of the U.S. military without increasing troop size. He said he had proposed some 40 ways to do so in an 11-page memo now being circulated among senior Pentagon officials. Rumsfeld spoke by phone while on a plane headed to an undisclosed location. Excerpts:
--On force strength
We can afford whatever military force that this country needs. The fact that other people are saying it ought to be reviewed is a fair comment because the force has been used at a...
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