Of MICE and Men: Rumsfeld for the Defense
On Sept. 10, 2001, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was the man the MICE — the Military-Industrial-Congressional Empire — loved to hate. Today, after nine months as everybody’s favorite “secretary of war,” the MICE are chewing on him again. The reason, then and now: “transformation,” or Rumsfeld’s attempt to drag America’s defense establishment, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century. The Read More ›