And finally of the three internal reforms at our department, reestablishing deterrence, you all know for far too long, especially under the Biden Administration, the military looked woke and weak and it invited aggression on the world stage. Under the Biden administration, our adversaries expanded in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine, in the Middle east, in what happened on October 7th in Southeast Asia and Central and South America. The debacle in Afghanistan set the stage for a lot of it. By the way, we're getting an update again next week from our Afghan task force looking into what happened there. (16:35–16:47)
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