Enabling our foreign partners to provide for their own security and contribute to multilateral security efforts is an investment that pays immediate and long-term dividends by reducing the need for costlier U.S. interventions in response to turmoil in regions critical to U.S. interests.
Panetta emphasizes the importance of foreign partnerships in security to minimize U.S. military interventions.
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Autocrats that once operated in their own spheres of influence have now joined together in an axis of mutual support and aggression.
The answer is no, not at all. Not in 100 years. These plans that the Pentagon develops, we -- we develop these plans to deal with every potential crisis that's out there.
Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.
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