Heading a military service isn’t quite the position of power it used to be. In a Bush administration revision of plans for
Pentagon succession in a doomsday scenario, three of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s most loyal advisers moved ahead of the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. A little-noticed holiday week executive order from
President Bush moved the Pentagon’s intelligence chief to the No. 3 spot in the succession hierarchy behind Rumsfeld. Full Story