美国国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德于 5月初宣布 ,美国军事战略将作重大调整 ,其中包括正式放弃十年来一直贯彻的“美军必须准备打赢两场几乎同时发生的大规模战争”的军事标准。拉姆斯菲尔德还在 5月 9日会见了布什总统 ,以寻求批准新的军事战略 ,并在白宫正式宣布了这一新战略 ,随后 U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announced in early May that major changes will be made to the U.S. military strategy, including the formal abandonment of the military standard that “the U.S. military must prepare to win two large-scale wars which occur almost simultaneously and simultaneously” over the past decade. Rumsfeld also met with President Bush on May 9 to seek approval of the new military strategy and formally announced the new strategy at the White House,