PBS Frontline - Rumsfeld's War (Oct 2004)

PBS Frontline - Rumsfeld's War (26th October 2004) In "Rumsfeld's War," FRONTLINE and The Washington Post join forces for the first time to investigate Donald Rumsfeld's contentious battle with the Pentagon bureaucracy to assert civilian control of the military and remake the way America fights. This report traces Donald Rumsfeld's career from his time as an adviser to President Nixon to his rise as the oft-seen and well-known face of the George W. Bush administration during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In interviews with key administration officials, military leaders, and reporters from The Washington Post, the documentary examines how a secretary of defense bent on reform became a secretary of war accused of ignoring the advice of his generals. "He came in determined to reassert civilian control over the Joint Staff and the rest of the military and it was a pretty tough process, a lot of friction in those first months, with Rumsfeld saying, `No, I don't think you heard me clearly. I'm the boss. I want it this way,'" reporter Thomas Ricks of The Washington Post tells FRONTLINE. In the early months of the Bush administration, Rumsfeld saw his biggest enemy as the outdated Cold War thinking of the troops he commanded. "Donald Rumsfeld wanted to build a smaller, nimbler, and more networked military that could respond swiftly to threats anywhere in the world. He came into the Defense Department where the forces were heavy and slow, took months to deploy and worked best when used in massive numbers," says Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Former Secretary of the Army Thomas White says that when Rumsfeld tried to push for a reduction in the number of troops in the army, the secretary found himself clashing with General Eric Shinseki, the army's respected Chief of Staff. More info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pentagon/ AVI File Details ===================================================================================== Name.........: PBS Frontline (Oct 2004) Rumsfeld's War (Divx 1h24m) ConRes.avi Filesize.....: 404 MB (or 414,717 KB or 424,670,842 bytes) Runtime......: 01:23:56 (150,933 fr) Video Codec..: DX50/DIVX Video Bitrate: 603 kb/s Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 64 kb/s (32/ch, stereo) CBR Frame Size...: 352x256 (1.38:1) [=11:8] Ripper ......: p2P2p Peace :) http://conspiracyresearch.org (Forums, Wiki, Blogs) http://conspiracycentral.net:6969 (Educational Tracker)