We have, you know, foreign service officers, careers, civil servants. But compared to some of these other agencies that are out there, we're not that large. And yet we have a global footprint. We're really other than department, I would say beyond the Department of War, we're the only ones that are present almost everywhere on the planet. So we have limited resources and we have to be able to allocate those resources in ways that, that are driven by the core mission of advancing our national security. (06:14–06:22)
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Asserts that the State Department, besides the Department of War, is present almost everywhere globally.
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