In recent decades, US leaders have given our military too many missions and have prioritized US military “presence” in too many places across the world that deliver too little benefit to our national defense. American leaders must tell our military what it no longer has to do. And they will certainly need to avoid saddling our military with costly and unnecessary new missions, such as a war with Iran, an intervention in Venezuela, or preemptive military action against North Korea. Certain other missions, such as limited counterterrorism operations, can and should continue, and US leaders must
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