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Roger Wicker: “There was a RAND study that came out in December... they said that, under plausible scenarios, the United States could…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2018
There was a RAND study that came out in December... they said that, under plausible scenarios, the United States could actually lose the next war.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker references a RAND study warning about potential U.S. military vulnerabilities.

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