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Jack Reed: “It strikes me that the Department of Defense today is the--an industrial model, and we're in a post-industrial age.”

On the recordNovember 16, 2015
It strikes me that the Department of Defense today is the--an industrial model, and we're in a post-industrial age.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed comments on the outdated industrial model of the Department of Defense.

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