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:"The general wanted a new kind of army, one that could combine the adaptability of light infantry and the power of heavily mechanised forces. His new bosses had other ideas. "They had pre-decided what transformation meant," said one Pentagon source. "It meant more from space, more from air and it didn't involve the army much. That was the essence of the[ir] conflict."
On August 1, 2003, [[Donald Rumsfeld]] replaced General Shinseki (who consequently retired at his pre-arranged retirement date that had been announced some 10 months before his testimony.) as Army Chief of Staff with General [[Peter J. Schoomaker]] after '''Shineski "questioned the [[cakewalk]] scenario, and told Congress (that February) that we would need several hundred thousand soldiers in Iraq to put an end to the violence against our troops and against each other."''' [http://why-war.com/news/2003/09/14/seekingh.html]
Deputy Defense Secretary [[Paul Wolfowitz]] called his estimate "wildly off the mark" and said, "I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep requirements down." By July 2003, "many experts say that the worst of the chaos in Iraq could have been contained if there had been enough troops on the ground from the beginning. There's a growing consensus that something close to what Shinseki suggested might be necessary to turn the situation around." [http://why-war.com/news/2003/07/18/fromhero.html]
