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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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