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Susan Collins: “Admiral Mullen, the second objection that we hear over and over and over is that we cannot implement this kind of change…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2010
Admiral Mullen, the second objection that we hear over and over and over is that we cannot implement this kind of change in the midst of a war. And I thought you made an excellent point that the opposite may be true, that war time facilitates change in some ways.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Senator Collins discusses the potential for wartime to facilitate changes in military policy.

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