[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

I think you are mistaken. He called for the continuation of decomm's. The budget for building new state of the art United States Ships is far better nowadays. (Especially since Clinton) All's Clinton did was create the TERA program (early outs) that are no longer. (Believe me the Navy lost alot of good old schoolers) And "Don't Ask Don't Tell" fiasco.

[Willie Green]

Nah, I'm pretty sure that Rummy set the pattern for downsizing the hardware.
He prefers spending the money on the golly-gee-whiz-bang computer stuff instead. (I seem to recall debates about him wanting to defend satellites from terrorist attacks. It seems kind of bizarre in retrospect.) Klintoon was very heavy into the social engineering, but I still think it was Rummy who changed the hardware priorities back when he worked for Papa Bush.