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Counting the Pieces: Defense Spending and the “Ever Shrinking Fighting Force”

The Asia Chessboard

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The State Department and Ambassadors in Japan

Rein: Our or best diplomats drive this process as ambassadors. I would never put myself in the category of a war fighter like tony zaney or paul van riper, or some of the other legendary marine war fighters,. i'm heavily influenced by the senior marines that i serve with side by side in my career. And they are very concerned about the direction that the commandant has going and don't appear to have their voice be listened to at all. But it's pretty far down the road from what we're supposed to do on an island off the coast of china. So when people like eagray agray tell me there is no way for us to get out

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