Rumsfeld’s Defense Review Still in Works

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is “not close” to finishing his top-to-bottom review of the nation’s military strategy, said John W. Warner (R-Va.), head of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Rumsfeld met with the chairmen and top Democrats of the armed services and defense appropriations panels of both houses of Congress, but he gave them no specifics on changes he may be planning.

Warner’s House counterpart, Rep. Bob Stump (R-Ariz.), said the House session with Rumsfeld was similarly unrevealing and turned into a meeting to arrange a second meeting next week “so he could tell us what he has in mind.”