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Andy Harris: “My responsibility is to ensure the President has a powerful, lethal, and ready military force in the Indo-Asia-Pacific…”

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
My responsibility is to ensure the President has a powerful, lethal, and ready military force in the Indo-Asia-Pacific in the event the other instruments of national power, specifically diplomatic and economic, fail.
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Andy Harris
Republican · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Harris emphasizes the military's role in U.S. strategy if diplomacy fails.

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