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Tim Kaine: “When the Soviet Union collapsed, we went to a reactive, case-by-case. After 9/11, we had a strategy again, which was the…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
When the Soviet Union collapsed, we went to a reactive, case-by-case. After 9/11, we had a strategy again, which was the war on terror.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine reflects on the shift in U.S. national security strategy post-Soviet Union and 9/11.

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