It has ripple effects throughout the commercial economy. It has dual use technologies, other things. It creates more opportunity. And what I worry about is that We've atrophied ourselves so much we don't have the ability to sustain long big operations. If we had to, now nobody wants to do that, but if we had to, could we do it? And I think the answer is questionable right now. (05:47–05:54)
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Asserts that the U.S. has weakened its capacity to sustain prolonged large-scale military operations.
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