I just finished reading an interesting article about Rumsfeld, Marshall, the RMA and the Iraq invasion in 2003. According to the article (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/200.../061120fa_fact), the precursor to Rumsfeld's push for our military transformation to a smaller, lighter force-which ultimately led to the mess we have today in Iraq-came in the form of Andrew Marshall, a long time Pentagon guru. It seems that Rumsfeld misinterpreted what Marshall was calling for, or at least didn't implement it properly, and in the process of trying to transform our military-almost broke it. What if Rumsfeld hadn't misimplemented Marshall's plan-where would we be today? Or what if Marshall hadn't been brought in with the new Bush administration in 2001. Any implications obvious to anyone? Granted the author points to other factors which led to this mess but was the RMA or its misimplementation as much to blame as this article suggests? Is marshalls RMA the way to go given what we know now?