Also, vastly:

Despite the strains of the Iraq war, the Army today is “vastly better” and more capable now than it was two to eight years ago, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday.

“It has much more equipment, much better equipment, and it’s better trained and more experienced, and it is a better Army,” Rumsfeld said, at a briefing at the Pentagon.
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Rumsfeld’s remarks came just one day after Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said that more than two-thirds of the Army National Guard’s brigades are not combat-ready primarily because of a $21 billion shortfall in equipment – most of it lost in the war.
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A letter released by Senate Democrats Tuesday from a national security group headed by William J. Perry, a defense secretary in the Clinton administration, said that none of the Army’s available combat brigades are ready to deploy because of equipment shortages.

“The bottom line is that our army currently has no ready, strategic reserve,” the group said. “Not since the Vietnam era and its aftermath has the Army’s readiness been so degraded.”

Separately, one defense analyst said Rumsfeld’s comments gloss over how badly the war has affected the Army.

“Rumsfeld’s assertion that this army is in a high state of readiness is yet another reflection of how detached he is from the realities of his own policies,” said Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute, a policy research group in Arlington, Va. “Who can believe that this army is ready to take on additional responsibilities in Iran or Korea or any other place where it might be needed?

But Rumsfeld suggested that the problem was all a matter of perception.
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But a defense official, who asked not to be named because of Pentagon policy, said that the National Guard’s equipment problems went beyond the $21 billion figure cited by Blum. That figure is only the amount needed to replace equipment that had been lost directly in the war. Full modernization for the National Guard is a “25-year problem” that will require billions more, the official said.

Interesting that Rumsfeld’s remarks came during a news briefing on the very same day that he said he was “too busy” to testify at a public Senate hearing. For such a tough guy, Rumsfeld sure is a pussy. Maybe this is why

Anyone who endorsed that report [Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq February 2006] should be out of a job by now. Donald Rumsfeld submitted it to Congress (and who do you think might have penned the words “the overarching term ‘insurgency’ is less of a useful construct today”?). I’m not a chronic Rumsfeld basher. But if we still have any interest in pretending to care about accountability as well as averting further disaster, it’s long past time for him to go, isn’t it?

Late Update: Flip-Flopper.