And, yeah, we need to evaluate the force, you know, what's necessary in the next number of years to take on a rising China. I think the navy is, obviously needs the resources to build more ships. We're down to 290 ships. The Chinese will be up 400 ships probably by the end of this decade. Now, is there any talk about, we've had the triad forever, and I always bring this up, maybe we don't need as many land based missiles anymore. (08:48–08:55)
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