Reply #48: First, look

[shadowgrouse]

at the current Army Chief of Staff, I can assure you he didn't come out of retirement to be Rumsfeld's yes man. As for all these others, I don't think there is a case to be made that all the people of integrity left. I wouldn't presume to question Gen Franks' integrity among others that stayed. Yes, some people who were hidebound to the old idea of what the Army should be left, just like the Battleship Admirals had to be nudged aside in WW2. We weren't fighting the Soviets anymore and anyone who couldn't adjust to that needed to find a new line of work. That doesn't mean being Rumy's yes man. There were still bitter fights over how we should transform and some are still going on.