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Tim Sheehy: “We can spend 1.5 trillion, we can do whatever we want. But…”

Featuring: Tim Sheehy, Republican | U.S. Senate from Montana

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Dollars, Defense, and Reform: A Conversation with Senator Tim Sheehy

Published | Video Starts at 43:02

Montana Advanced Training Range Integrated Exercise Area. The point of this is we can have the best engineers, the best technology, We can spend 1.5 trillion, we can do whatever we want. But if we don't have places to iterate and refine our gear, tactics, techniques, procedures, then all that's for naught. And one thing that's become very obvious in recent years, especially as we're moving out of, of kind of just traditional hardware kinetic systems, as we start looking at cyber weapons, space, electronic warfare spectrum denial. (43:02–43:13)

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Asserts the necessity of testing areas for military innovation despite high spending.

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