Rumsfeld knows it and is trying to take us in the right direction. The traditionalists are fighting him every step of the way.
This century's major wars will be won or lost from hardened underground control centers in the heart of America, using unmanned aircraft and space-based technologies.
What planet are you living on? Naval warfare obsolete?
Right now, as we speak, 26 nations have submarines, capable of interdicting trade and supply lines and attacking shore bases with standoff weapons.
Right now, as we speak, 6 nations have aircraft carriers capable of bringing airpower right to your front doorstep in varying capacities.
Right now, 3/4 of the world's crude oil is moved by ships that need to be defended. 40% of the world's raw materials are moved by ship.
Right now, five (and possibly as many as seven) nations have nuclear warheads on missiles sitting aboard submarines.
As long as we use the sea as a highway it will need to be defended by a navy. As long as other nations also have navies, we will need one. Naval combat is not obsolete, it has just changed it's character.
And while they a searching for a target worthy of the technolocal sophistication, platoon sized units armed with assault rifles are going to nove in and take possesion of the territory.