Authors: Donald Rumsfeld
ABM:
Anti-Ballistic Missile
AID:
Agency for International Development
ANA:
Afghan National Army
AOR:
military area of responsibility
BRAC:
base realignment and closure
CBW:
chemical or biological weapon
CENTCOM:
U.S. Central Command
CERP:
Commander's Emergency Response Program
CJCS:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CLC:
Cost of Living Council
COIN:
counterinsurgency
CPA:
Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
Defcon: Defense condition
DHS:
Department of Homeland Security
DNI:
director of national intelligence
DoD: Department of Defense
EFP:
explosively formed penetrator
EPA:
Environmental Protection Agency
FAA:
Federal Aviation Administration
FARC:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FCC:
Federal Communications Commission
FEMA:
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FOIA:
Freedom of Information Act
GI:
General Instrument Corporation
HEW:
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
ICC:
International Criminal Court
IED:
improvised explosive device
IGC:
Iraqi Governing Council
IIA:
Iraqi Interim Authority
INL:
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S.
Department of State
ISAF:
International Security Assistance ForceâAfghanistan
ISF:
Iraqi Security Forces
ISG:
Iraq Survey Group
JCS:
Joint Chiefs of Staff
JSOC:
Joint Special Operations Command
JSTARS:
Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System
LAF:
Lebanese armed forces
MARSOC:
Marine Corps Special Operations Command
MCA:
Military Commission Act of 2006
MEF:
Marine Expeditionary Force
MNF:
multinational force
MRAP:
mine resistant ambush protected vehicle
NATO:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NGO:
nongovernmental organization
NIC:
National Intelligence Council
NIE:
national intelligence estimate
NMCC:
National Military Command Center
NORAD:
North American Aerospace Defense Command
NORTHCOM:
U.S. Northern Command
NSA:
National Security Agency
NSC:
National Security Council
NSPD:
national security policy directive
ODA:
Operational Detachment Alpha
OEO:
Office of Economic Opportunity
OLC:
Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
OMB:
Office of Management and Budget
OPLAN:
operation plan
ORHA:
Office Of Reconstruction And Humanitarian AssistanceâIraq
OSD:
Office of the Secretary of Defense
PA&E:
program analysis and evaluation
PKK:
Kurdistan Workers' Party
POW:
prisoner of war
PRC:
People's Republic of China
PRT:
provincial reconstruction team
ROTC:
Reserve Officers' Training Corps
RPG:
rocket-propelled grenade
SAS:
British Special Air Service
SALT:
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
SLRG:
Senior Level Review Group, U.S. Department of Defense
SOCOM:
U.S. Special Operations Command
SOF:
U.S. Special Operations Forces
SOUTHCOM:
U.S. Southern Command
SVTC:
secure video teleconference
TPFDD:
time-phased force and deployment data
UAV:
unmanned aerial vehicle
WMD:
weapons of mass destruction
First Insert
1. Donald and Joan Rumsfeld, c. 1938. (Rumsfeld Collection)
2. Lt. George Rumsfeld and Jeannette Rumsfeld, Coronado, California, c. 1944. (Rumsfeld Collection)
3. The Philmont Scout Ranch guides, Cimarron, New Mexico, 1949. (Rumsfeld Collection)
4. The Princeton University Varsity wrestling team, Princeton, New Jersey, 1953. (Bric-A-Brac [1954], Prince ton University Archives.)
5. Donald Rumsfeld and Joyce Pierson, Princeton, New Jersey, June 15, 1954. (Rumsfeld Collection)
6. The crew of a Navy S2F, Naval Air Station Glenview, Glenview, Illinois, c. 1961. (Rumsfeld Collection)
7. Marcy, Joyce, Valerie, and Donald Rumsfeld, Glenview, Illinois, 1962. (Rumsfeld Collection)
8. Donald Rumsfeld, Ned Jannotta, et al., Rumsfeld for Congress headquarters, Winnetka, Illinois, April 10, 1962. (Courtesy of Chicago History Museum, ICHi-62635, Photographer:
Chicago Daily News
)
9. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Donald Rumsfeld, 1962. (Rumsfeld Collection)
10. Donald Rumsfeld and Gerald Ford, U.S. Capitol Building, 1964. (Norman Matheny, 1964, The
Christian Science Monitor,
www.CSMonitor.com
)
11. Donald and Marcy Rumsfeld, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and Virgil Grissom, U.S. Capitol Building, c. 1965. (U.S. Government)
12. Donald Rumsfeld, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, et al., East Room of the White House, April 11, 1968. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Photograph by Yoichi Okamoto)
13. President Richard Nixon, Donald Rumsfeld, Joyce Rumsfeld, Nick Rumsfeld, et al., Rose Garden, the White House, May 26, 1969. (Bettmann Collection, Corbis Images)
14. Donald Rumsfeld, Office of Economic Opportunity office, Washington, D.C., c. 1969. (Office of Economic Opportunity, U.S. Government)
15. Bryce Harlow, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Donald Rumsfeld, Washington, D.C., c. 1970. (Official White House photograph)
16. Donald and Joyce Rumsfeld and Henry Kissinger, the White House, August 4, 1970. (Official White House photograph, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum)
17. Donald Rumsfeld and El Cordobés (Manuel BenÃtez Pérez), outside Córdoba, Spain, May 1972. (U.S. Government)
18. President Richard Nixon, Donald Rumsfeld, John Mitchell, John Erlichman, Charles Colson, Bryce Harlow, Bob Haldeman, and Bob Finch, Key Biscayne, Florida, November 7, 1970. (Official White House photograph by Byron Schumacher, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) 19. President Richard Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Donald Rumsfeld, and members of the Taos Pueblo Indian Tribal Council, Cabinet Room, the White House, July 8, 1970. (Official White House photograph, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum)
20. John McCloy, Robert Murphy, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliot Richardson, and Anwar al-Sadat, Cairo, United Arab Republic, October 2, 1970. (Rumsfeld Collection)
21. Donald and Nick Rumsfeld and President Richard Nixon, Oval Office, the White House, February 13, 1973. (Official White House photograph by Ollie Atkins, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum)
22. President Richard Nixon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Donald Rumsfeld, NATO headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, June 26, 1974. (NATO handout, Corbis Images)
23. Joyce and Marcy Rumsfeld, Greece, August 1974. (Rumsfeld Collection)
24. Donald and Valerie Rumsfeld, Greece, August 1974. (Rumsfeld Collection)
25. Herman Kahn, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Gerald Ford, Oval Office, the White House, October 28, 1974. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
26. Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, the White House, March 5, 1975. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by Jack Kightlinger)
Second Insert
27. Larry Eagleburger, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney, Air Force One, Arizona, October 21, 1974. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
28. David Kennerly, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Gerald Ford, the White House tennis court, July 16, 1975. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by Ricardo Thomas)
29. Secretary of Treasury Bill Simon, Ron Nessen, President Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Alan Greenspan, Vail, Colorado, December 27, 1974. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
30. General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Donald Rumsfeld, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, President Gerald Ford, et al., Okeansky Sanitarium, Vladivostok, USSR, November 24, 1974. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
31. Donald Rumsfeld, Leona Goodell, and President Gerald Ford, Air Force One, September 5, 1975. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
32. President Gerald Ford, Donald Rumsfeld, et al., Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, California, September 22, 1975. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
33. Jeannette, Joyce, Nick, Marcy, and Valerie Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, November 20, 1975. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
34. Joyce and Nick Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, November 20, 1975. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
35. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Vice Adm. Staser Holcomb, Donald Rumsfeld, Joe Sisco, et al., Blair House, Washington, D.C., January 28, 1976. (Ron Sachs/CNP/ Sygma Collection/Corbis Images)
36. Donald Rumsfeld, President Gerald Ford, Ambassadors André de Staerke, François de Rose, David Bruce, et al., the Pentagon, March 29, 1976. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by William Fitz-Patrick)
37. Valerie, Marcy, Nick, and Joyce Rumsfeld, Betty Ford, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Gerald Ford, Oval Office, the White House, January 19, 1977. (Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, White House photograph by Ricardo Thomas)
38. Jim Denny, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Robson, G. D. Searle & Co. headquarters, Skokie, Illinois, c. 1979. (© Jonathan Daniel)
39. U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield, Donald Rumsfeld, and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Tokyo, Japan, December 1982. (Rumsfeld Collection)
40. President Ronald Reagan and Donald Rumsfeld, Oval Office, the White House, November 3, 1983. (Ron Sachs/CPN/Corbis Images)
41. Jack Kemp, Howard Baker, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld, Dole for President campaign plane, 1996. (Rumsfeld Collection)
42. Elk herd at the Rumsfeld farm, El Prado, New Mexico, c. 2007. (Pete French)
43. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, et al., c. 1970. (Rumsfeld Collection)
44. Vice President Dick Cheney, Judge Larry Silberman, President George W. Bush, Donald and Joyce Rumsfeld, Oval Office, the White House, January 26, 2001. (Department of Defense photograph by Robert D. Ward)
45. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Condi Rice, Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon, c. March 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
46. The Pentagon, September 11, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
47. Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, September 12, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
48. Donald Rumsfeld, September 12, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
49. Doug Feith, Gen. Jim Jones, Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush, Condi Rice, Gordon England, Gen. Hugh Shelton, Gen. Jack Keane, Adm. Vern Clark, et al., the Pentagon, September 12, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
50. Gen. Dick Myers, Donald Rumsfeld, et al., press briefing room, the Pentagon, c. 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
51. Donald Rumsfeld, Ground Zero, New York City, November 14, 2001. (Photograph by Karen Ballard)
52. Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Reggie, Rumsfeld residence, Washington, D.C., October 6, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
53. Steve Cambone, Paul Wolfowitz, Larry Di Rita, Donald Rumsfeld, and Torie Clarke, office of the Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon, October 7, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
Third Insert
54. Afghan Northern Alliance fighters at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, December 16, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
55. Abandoned Soviet-made aircraft at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, December 16, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
56. Hamid Karzai and Donald Rumsfeld, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, December 16, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
57. Ismail Khan, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad, Herat Airport, Afghanistan, April 27, 2002. (Department of Defense photograph by Robert D. Ward)
58. Donald Rumsfeld, President George Bush, and Gen. Tommy Franks (on SVTS), situation room, the White House, October 25, 2001. (Photograph by Eric Draper, courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Center)
59. Larry Di Rita, Donald Rumsfeld, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Gen. David Barno, et al., Mazar-e-Sharif, December 4, 2003. (Photograph by Karen Ballard)
60. Combatant commanders and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the President, cabinet room, the White House, February 28, 2002. (Photograph by Eric Draper, courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Center)
61. Donald Rumsfeld, et al., town hall meeting in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, December 8, 2004. (Department of Defense photograph by Master Sgt James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force)
62. Donald Rumsfeld and L. Paul Bremer, Baghdad Airport, Iraq, December 6, 2003. (Photograph by Karen Ballard)
63. President George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Secretary of State Colin Powell, Istanbul, Turkey, June 28, 2004. (Getty Images)
64. Vice Adm. Jim Stavridis, Donald Rumsfeld, Larry Di Rita, Gen. George Casey, and Bill Luti, American embassy, Baghdad, Iraq, February 11, 2005. (David Hume Kennerly)
65. Gen. Ray Ordierno, Donald Rumsfeld, et al., Kirkut Air Base, Iraq, December 6, 2003. (Photograph by Karen Ballard)
66. Gen. David Petraeus, Donald Rumsfeld, et. al., Baghdad, Iraq, July 27, 2005. (Joe Raedle/Pool/Corbis Images)
67. Torie Clarke, Marc Theissen, Doug Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Vice Adm. Ed Giambastiani, Delonnie Henry, et al., onboard a C-17 en route to Uzbekistan, October 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
68. Donald Rumsfeld, Sultan Qaboos, et al., Oman, October 4, 2001. (David Hume Kennerly)
69. Donald Rumsfeld with Kazakh officials, Astana, Kazakhstan, April 28, 2002. (Rumsfeld Collection)
70. Donald Rumsfeld and “Montana,” Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, October 22, 2005. (Department of Defense photograph by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force)
71. Republic of Korea Minister of Defense Yoong Kwang Ung, Gen. Dick Myers, Richard Lawless, Donald Rumsfeld, et al., the Pentagon, October 22, 2004. (Department of Defense photograph by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force)
72. Donald Rumsfeld and Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov, the Pentagon, January 11, 2005. (Department of Defense photograph by Helene C. Stikkel)
73. PRC Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, Robert Rangel, Peter Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Gene Renuart, et al., the Pentagon, December 8, 2005. (Department of Defense photograph)
74. Gen. Peter Pace, Donald Rumsfeld, and Lady Margaret Thatcher, office of the Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon, September 12, 2006. (Department of Defense photograph by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen)
75. Donald and Joyce Rumsfeld, Falcon Stadium, United States Air Force Academy, May 31, 2006. (Department of Defense photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy)
76. Joyce Rumsfeld, fire department, Vail, Colorado, March 4, 2006. (Department of Defense photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy)
77. Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, December 2004. (Department of Defense photograph by Helene C. Stikkel)
78. Gen. Peter Pace and Donald Rumsfeld, outside the Oval Office, the White House, October 23, 2006. (Photograph by Eric Draper, courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Center)
79. Donald Rumsfeld with World War II veterans, Naval Air Station North island, Coronado, California, August 30, 2005. (Department of Defense photograph by Tech Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, U.S. Air Force)
80. Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell, Donald Rumsfeld, Adm. Tim Keating, et al., New Orleans International Airport, September 4, 2005. (Department of Defense photograph by Tech Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, U.S. Air Force)
81. Rob Portman and combatant commanders, Old Europe restaurant, Washington, D.C., September 2006. (Department of Defense photograph by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, U.S. Air Force)
82. Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Gen. Peter Pace, the Pentagon, December 15, 2006. (Photograph by Karen Ballard)
83. Nick, Valerie, Donald, Joyce, and Marcy Rumsfeld, the Pentagon, December 15, 2006. (David Hume Kennerly)
84. Mia Rumsfeld, Valerie Rumsfeld-Richard, Sofia and Rachel Richard, the Pentagon, June 25, 2010. (Department of Defense photograph by Cherie Cullen)