01/30/2013
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"DOD has an advantage over DOS in providing certain capacity-building assistance, such as building the operational capacity of partner nations."
"The FMF program is a critical tool for executing our foreign policy; it is key to improving bilateral relationships."
"Proper coordination and concurrence procedures ensure that urgent security capacity building requirements do not undermine the United States' overarching foreign policy priorities."
"Recall too, the history of 2001. We didn't defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan through total overwhelming firepower."