WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other military officials Wednesday defended his decision to cancel the Army's plans for an $11 billion Crusader artillery system in favor ...

TAOS, N.M. — Donald Rumsfeld, a former U.S. secretary of defense, has died at the age of 88. Rumsfeld’s family announced his death in a statement posted on Twitter on Wednesday. They said he passed ...

Rumsfeld has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) and the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University (1985). Was captain of the football and wrestling teams at Princeton. Timeline ...

There are known knowns, known unknowns and -- most alarmingly -- unknown unknowns. At least, that is what former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld explained to the American public nearly 25 years ago, ...

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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified to Congress that approximately $2.3 trillion in Pentagon receipts was "missing" from the defense budget the day before the September 11, 2001 ...

Departing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that his most difficult moment on the job was when he learned of the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison. His best moment, he said, may come ...