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will often depend on our ability to limit the loss of life, you can be sure that our adversaries always know that.
We must upgrade the smart weapons so essential during Desert Storm and develop new systems that can help reduce essential American - reduce American and civilian casualties. Our new military must be more flexible to operate with diverse partners because in the new world coalition operations will often be important for political legitimacy.
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might be armed with (former Warsaw Pact?) equipment and the enemies armed with western weapons.
That is why we must find new ways to protect American and allied troops against the mistaken use of our own and allied weapons. Our new military must be more ready because the new world will be unpredictable. Ready in the future to reconstitute our forces if these contingencies arrive, ready with deep roots in America, which is why it would make it -Cinaudible) is should make increase of guard and - (inaudible)[ forces in regional contingencies so that our use of force will be considered with the utmost seriousness. Maintained affordable and broadly supported here at home.
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In all, by shipping from a port designed to win the cold war, the one better equipped to respond rapidly to regional flare ups.
The Clinton-Gore defense budget brings savings of about $60 billion over the current Bush plan for 1997, very close to the numbers recommended by Senator Nunn (ph) and Representative Aspen (ph), but our efforts must go further. I agree with Senator Nunn that it is time to take a fresh look at the basic organization of armed forces.
We have four separate air forces, both the Army and Marines have light infantry divisions. The Navy and the Air Force are separately developed with similar fighter aircrafts and tactical missiles. We have at least three, and in some cases four, separate medical corps, chaplain corps, dental corps, legal corps, and nursing corps. Each service has its own administrative training and logistics facility. While respecting the uniqueness of each service and its capability, we
capability, we can reduce redundancy, save billions of dollars and get better teamwork.
In 1948, the then Secretary of Defense, James Forstall (ph) convened a meeting of the military service chiefs in Key West to allocate responsibilities among the four services. It failed for obvious reasons.
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