Let me just say that there has been a policy among a number of nations in the Western democracies, including our allies, that would respond to chemical or biological attack with nuclear systems. We have never foreclosed that.
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I think what today's hearing and what this situation and NATO's eastern flank highlights is the fact that we don't have a tremendous amount of time to wait around for the next great Army to show up in 10 to 15 to 20 years.
The government needs to be very discriminating about how it approaches and how it invests its R&D dollars.
Advanced technologies such as UAVs and EW can serve as important force multipliers that improve the effectiveness of current U.S.-European force posture but are by themselves insufficient in tipping the balance.
You cannot throw money at the problem, and we do not need to be investing government dollars where the private sector is going to invest its own dollars.
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