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Susan Collins: “I am also concerned about the apparent lack of a coherent civil-military plan for integrating our military operations…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
I am also concerned about the apparent lack of a coherent civil-military plan for integrating our military operations with economic and political development that is so essential to success in counterinsurgency.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Collins expresses concern over military and civil strategy in Afghanistan.

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