Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, give an example on how the Defense Department can generate considerably more combat capability with the same or fewer numbers of weapons platforms.
Rumsfeld, at the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Defense, explains that in Operation Desert Storm on aircraft carrier could engage about 175 targets per day. Then in 2004 during Operation Iraqi Freedom a carrier could engage 650 targets per day.(:49)
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