Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims he is “perfectly honest” when he says, “I don’t know what she was talking about.” Rumsfeld was responding to a question from Scott Hennen with WDAY radio in Fargo, N.D., who wanted to know if Rumsfeld agreed with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who said the US had made thousands of tactical errors in Iraq. He went on to explain, “Commanders have to constantly make tactical adjustments,” because the “enemy’s got a brain” and “constantly adjusts.”
Secretary of Defense Austin Lloyd III met with his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the Philippines to discuss bolstering defense ties on May 2. The discussion included plans for joint F-35 exercises with Japan and Australia in the coming years.