Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will propose the formation of a NATO rapid-reaction force to deal with potential terrorist threats when he meets early next week with his counterparts in Warsaw, Poland, a senior defense official said today. "There's no question that 9/11 and the need for NATO to think about problems out of its traditional area of operations is one of the things that sparked this," the senior official told reporters at the Pentagon. Although its exact composition is yet...
