I think if we've learned anything over the last 5 years, we've learned that if we are going to be fighting a counterinsurgency far away, contracting is an essential piece of that mission, and if we haven't learned that lesson, then we're in real trouble.
McCaskill stresses the importance of contracting in counterinsurgency efforts.
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