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Report Proposes Slashing U.S. Aircraft Carriers, Investing in Lasers to Combat Russia and China

October 18, 2016 Washington Post
By: Thomas Gibbons-Neff
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The U.S. military is at an inflection point. Unable to remove itself completely from two protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has been forced to respond to a resurgent Russia and a rising China, while remaining ready to combat myriad terrorist threats around the world.