Rumsfeld Cautious On Increasing Size of U.S. Military

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Rumsfeld Cautious on Increasing Size of U.S. Military?????

(This goes down as one of the most laughable and misleading headlines in history! Rumsfeld simply wants to privatize....it's more "efficient" don't ya know).

Tue August 5, 2003 04:53 PM ET


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite the stress of global missions on the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday he had seen no conclusive evidence yet that America's 1.4 million troops should be increased.

Rumsfeld said he was studying the problem with top military officials but that other avenues for making the military more efficient remained available, including shifting tens of thousands of non-combat jobs handled by troops to civilian defense workers.

"At the moment I don't believe that anyone that I've talked to has evidence that argues that we have done those kinds of things sufficiently effectively that one could make a current case for increasing end-strength," he told reporters......MORE

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3225164