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Military transformation need not be all encompassing to be successful, Wolfowitz noted, pointing to the Germans' June 1940 "Blitzkrieg," when air power and fast-moving armor forces combined to conquer France in a month.

At that time only about 15 percent of the German army was composed of modern mechanized forces, Wolfowitz remarked. "But it was that 10 or 15 percent that made the decisive difference in allowing the rest of the army to triumph so quickly," he said.

Changing only a small percentage of the U.S. military, Wolfowitz explained, "is enough to produce a revolution, as the Germans demonstrated."