Donald Rumsfeld, selected yesterday by President-elect Bush to run the Pentagon again after a tour there during the Ford administration, is best known in defense circles today for chairing a commission in 1998 that changed the way in which missile defense is approached by the United States. The commission, which bears his name, sharply contradicted with the Clinton administration's view of the missile threat, sparking congressional action and, eventually, leading the administration to change its missile defense philosophy and funding...
