Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is remembered for many things, among them his iconic observation that, “There are known knowns–there are things we know we know. We also know there are known ...

On February 12, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had the unenviable task of explaining to the world how the United States had linked the Iraqi government to arming terrorists with “weapons ...

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"Events, dear boy, events." That’s what the late British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said remain the greatest challenge facing a political campaign. Back in January 2023, I wrote that the 2024 ...

Anyone watching Donald Rumsfeld’s briefings about the invasion of Iraq needed to be ready to keep pinching themselves. Firstly there was the bespectacled swagger and confidence, about things that ...

In 2002, while making the case for the US invasion of Iraq to those who asked for evidence of what we now know to be nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, Donald Rumsfeld referred to known knowns, ...

“Known knowns” and “unknown knowns” are common terms in the intelligence world as well as in project management and strategic-planning circles. A known known is a fact you are aware of. A known ...

No one knows how 2023 will play out for the U.S. and world economies or for global financial markets. But to rephrase former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, today there are an unusually large ...

The death of Donald Rumsfeld, the controversial architect of the Iraq war under President George W. Bush, brought back memories of heated news conferences and memorable quotes. July 1 - A look at the ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at ...