Ronald Reagan: “Military inferiority does not avoid a conflict, it only invites one…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1981

Military inferiority does not avoid a conflict, it only invites one and then ensures defeat.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at the Bicentennial Observance of the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia

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Ronald Reagan: “Military inferiority does not avoid a conflict, it only invites one and then ensures defeat.”