And we had a roaring economy. We had all kinds of good things that happened during that decade. Yeah, we were promised a peace dividend In 1992, our military budget was about $6 billion, and we were told it was going to be cut down to $2 billion. And that would be enough to protect the homeland, to protect the, the neutral areas, the sea lanes, neutral areas like the Arctic, and be able to fight to not full scale wars, but basically to fight incidents on two fronts. (21:39–21:45)
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