While I admire Rumsfeld I'm not a big fan of this kind of mentality. One cannot reduce warfare to formulas unless it is a simple ratio of dead and surrendered enemies to live enemies. That is the only true measure of success. I dare say the pounding of Fallujah intimidated more potential enemies and won more hearts and minds than any sewer or water project. It didn't make anyone love us, but it certainly made more than a few respect us.
He's another version of Robt.Strange McNamara.To him a war can be run like a business rather than realizing that a war is a war.
I wonder how he plans to stem the tide of invasion in the American Southwest?"...illegals are just taking jobs Americans won't do". Sorry, I forgot this slur came from the President not Rummy.