Les Aspin

November, 1973

"Guerrilla warfare is the best method I've found for dealing with them." That's not a statement from some Pentagon expert lecturing Congress on the smart way to wage war in swamps. It's from a member of Congress who's discussing his technique for battling the maddening inefficiencies rooted in the way things work--or don't work--at the Pentagon. Since winning election in 1970, 35-year-old Les Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat, has quickly become Congress' most vocal Defense Department critic...