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Tom Cotton: “Mandating a higher end-strength without increasing funding would mean a hollow force unless you borrowed more money from…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2016
Mandating a higher end-strength without increasing funding would mean a hollow force unless you borrowed more money from modernization to pay for readiness.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Discussing the implications of increasing troop numbers without sufficient funding.

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