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On the recordJanuary 23, 2007
strategic dispersion of the fleet may have made sense during the Cold War, but there is no sound national-security reason for doing so today
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Senator Webb discusses the relevance of fleet dispersion in current national security.

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