Return to Article: Senate confirms Gates as new Defense secretary
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One of the Pentagon's greatest faults of Rumsfeld was that he ignored his senior military advisers. Guess why! The senior military advisers are totally incompetent! Management throughout the Defense Department and the services is bad or nonexistent! The only way to solve the problems is either to ignore them or get them out. Rummy tried both and that is a large part of the reason we have NSPS. While I do not believe it will accomplish anything, Rummy did!
Rummy was a manager - Gates is a government hack. Time will tell but I bet Gates does nothing to improve the military to fight today's battles. He will rebuild the World War II force as the military generals and admirals want! He will be supported by the military industrial complex that has gained complete control of the military and Congress concerning appropriations. Luckily we are not at the point of building more cross bows and suits of armor, but we are not far from it.
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