The day after President Bush announced the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time SECDEF appeared at Kansas State University for the Alf Landon Lecture Series, offering his view of the way forward in the war on terror. Among several suggestions, Rumsfeld told the 5,000-strong audience, “National security policies can no longer be separated into the functions of defense, diplomacy, and development.” In what is becoming a familiar call, Rumsfeld advocates better collaboration among DOD, State, CIA, Homeland, Justice, and more. He also laid some blame for current circumstances in Afghanistan and Iraq on the budgeting process. Rumsfeld asserted, “The realities on the ground in the rest of the world do not correspond to the yearly federal budgetary process—where it can take one year to craft a budget, another to get it approved by Congress, and then a third year to execute that then somewhat stale program.”
Details Murky as ARRW Falls Short in Second Test
March 24, 2023
The second all-up flight of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon on March 13 fell short of a fully successful test, but the Air Force isn’t saying what went wrong with the Lockheed Martin-built hypersonic missile. The defense giant's Missiles and Fire Control division recently said the ARRW is "ready…