The New York Times reports that US Secretary of Defense has decided to make life more easy for the US Army:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is allowing the Army to approach White House budget officials by itself to argue for substantial increases in resources, a significant divergence from initial plans by Mr. Rumsfeld and his inner circle to cut the Army to pay for new technology and a new way of war.
According to the Times some senior officials of the Army are not ‘just’ advocating a growth of 30,000 soldiers, but even of 60,000 to 80,000.
According to a staffer of Rumsfeld, he asked the Army to prove its case: “show me the metrics”. The Army showed him the metrics and, sufficiently proved its point.
In short, it seems that Rumsfeld is – finally perhaps – willing to adjust his plans to ‘modernize’ the US Army.
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