On the recordMarch 7, 2016
we are doing these drawdowns based upon decisions about budgets made in 2011 before ISIS, before Syria, before North Korea nuclear, before the South China Sea, before the Ukraine.
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King critiques budget decisions affecting military drawdowns amidst evolving global threats.
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