Secretary Rumsfeld launches battle against bureaucracy.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 September 2001-US DOD: Secretary Rumsfeld launches battle against bureaucracy (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10092001 Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld launched a battle against Pentagon bureaucracy today in a speech opening the 2001 Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week.

Rumsfeld said that he was launching an all-out campaign to shift Department of Defense resources from the bureaucracy to the battlefield. Rumsfeld described the Pentagon bureaucracy as "not the people, but the processes -- not the civilians, but the systems -- not the men and women in uniform, but the uniformity of thought and action we impose upon them." "The battle against bureaucracy is a moral imperative because the lives of Americans depend...