Commentary
Donald Rumsfeld got scorched by media rubes for saying: “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) speaks during a hearing with the Helsinki Commission in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on March 23, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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Austin Bay
Author
Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
