People who know me at all will be unsurprised that I admired the tough, get-your-shit-together, no-excuses, tell-it-like-it-is Donald Rumsfeld. RIP American Patriot. 🇺🇸🙏🏻 Thank you for your service; God speed. I salute you. /1 
I greatly admired his logical approach to problem solving & planning. My favorite story is how he dressed down the top Pentagon brass because they literally had no plan for a response if N.Korea used nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. To him that was complete dereliction./2
I would have thought the same: “no plan” is a plan to do nothing or be completely confused when it happens anyway or flying by the seat of your pants & all for no good reason. You can always adjust or even scrap a plan, but elements of it will almost always still be useful. /3
Plus, you always learn things just from the planning process - about your readiness, your resources, your lines of communication, your logistics, your people. You cut down on your “unknown unknowns,” as he would have said, when you plan. /4
And of course, his real politique about the federal govt is legendary, as evidenced by his annual letter to the IRS. If you haven’t seen one of those, here’s one. 👇🏻 Notice the grace note of old fashioned chivalry as he also defends his wife. /5
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