Donald Rumsfeld's snowflakes. Part 2, The Pentagon and U.S. foreign policy, 2004-2006.

"[This set] augments the Digital National Security Archive's already substantial snowflake collection with 3,994 documents and 24,473 new pages of material from the controversial defense secretary's tenure in office. Beginning with the final year of Bush's first term through Rumsfeld's resignation after the mid-term elections of 2006, these documents chronicle the concerns, both large and small, that occupied Rumsfeld's daily administration of the U.S. Defense Department.... In addition to Rumsfeld's musings about defense spending, government bureaucracy, political appointments, and office etiquette, the collection includes substantive responses to his inquiries from high-level civilian staff members and military commanders on significant national security topics, such as manpower needs in the prosecution of two wars, reconstruction and democratization in Iraq and Afghanistan, and modernization of the U.S. military. These responses are attached to the snowflake that generated them, allowing researchers a direct view of policymaking in the Defense Department."--About page.

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