Rumsfeld: War On Terrorism Not Inhibiting Transformation

By John Liang / August 20, 2002 at 5:00 AM
The ongoing war on terrorism is not holding back Pentagon efforts to fund the transformation of the military, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today. "It's always hard to find the funds to do all the things you'd like to do and that everyone in the Department of Defense would like to do," Rumsfeld told reporters at a DOD briefing. "But I don't think there's anything . . . about the war that is in any way inhibiting transformation." Rumsfeld added...

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