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Daniel Driscoll: “We had decayed, basically the peace dividend.”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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New era for the U.S. Army: Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll on the future of warfare

Published | Video Starts at 08:13

… which is us, we and then make our munitions, and I think there's no right amount that you need. And they're working on it now. We are scaling. We are. We had decayed, basically the peace dividend. When you're at peace as a nation, you want to spend your dollars on all sorts of other things other than defense. (08:13–08:16)

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Asserts that the U.S. military's capacity had declined due to the peace dividend.

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