Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Defense Secretary and one of the architects of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 88 at his home in Taos, New Mexico, according to his family. Mr Rumsfeld was Defense Secretary during 1975-1977, during the Gerald Ford administration, and then in the George W Bush administration, during 2001 – 2006.
