When Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki testified before the war that occupying Iraq would require a force of several hundred thousand troops, he was publicly repudiated by Wolfowitz and retired shortly thereafter. The State Department's "Future of Iraq" project, which drew heavily on Iraqi exiles, produced a 13-volume study that warned specifically about looting and anarchy. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld—who wanted to prove his own theories about how high-tech warfare reduced need for military manpower—personally told Gen. Jay Garner, the first head of the reconstruction effort, to ignore it.