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Jack Reed: “We might be at an inflection point, because the permissive environment... is rapidly changing.”

On the recordApril 1, 2014
We might be at an inflection point, because the permissive environment... is rapidly changing.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed warns about changing conditions affecting military strategy and shipbuilding.

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