03/04/2013
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"Forward-stationed U.S. Forces are both a tangible demonstration of the U.S.'s will and ability to defend common interests abroad."
"I think we all agree that that is necessary."
"I disagreed back in the 1990s when the reverse was true."
"Yes, but of course, if you are in a period, as we have been, of starving the military, the first thing that goes is maintenance and then modernization because that is less visible out there."