When de-fense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld set out to "transform" the military in 2001, the prevailing view among Washington lobbyists, journalists, politicians and not a few members of the United States armed forces was: fat chance. The secretary, all those in the know predicted, would not be able to budge the "iron triangle" of Congress, the defense industry and the top brass who were determined to protect their "rice bowls"―their annual appropriations and pet programs. Indeed, the early headlines mocked Rumsfeld for even trying.
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