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War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today, by Max Boot (Gotham, 640 pp., $35)
RETROSPECTIVES on the Rumsfeld era in the Pentagon have focused on the war in Iraq and the various issues surrounding it--pre-war intelligence, weapons of mass destruction, lack of planning for the post-major-combat-operations phase, and so forth. Yet Secretary Rumsfeld's most important legacy may well turn out to be a paradigm shift in the defense establishment encapsulated in the concept of "Defense Transformation." The changes that have taken place under the "transformation" rubric will revolutionize how the United States fights wars and manages the ...