Our current defense strategy focuses on spending on the least likely scenarios.
Betty McCollum: “Our current defense strategy focuses on spending on the least likely scenarios.”
On the recordFebruary 3, 2009
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Critiques the focus on low-risk defense spending over high-risk scenarios.
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