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Jack Reed: “Whatever we do, I think you will manage, which presents the interesting problem that we could be in a period of a steady…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
Whatever we do, I think you will manage, which presents the interesting problem that we could be in a period of a steady accelerating but invisible decline until a crisis, and then the reckoning will be severe.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed warns about potential military decline due to budget cuts.

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