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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Rummy's Reforms Return

Victor Davis Hanson notes that the new reforms being introduced by Obama and Gates look a lot like the old, much reviled, Rumsfeld reforms of Dubya's first term. Those reforms were brought to an abrupt halt by the Iraq war and were then denounced by Pentagon dinosaurs, military contractors who lost big-ticket contracts, and critics of the war. But now they seem to have a second life.

They should. Rummy's reforms made a lot of sense.

Read it here.