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Gen. Paxton: Sea Services Falling Behind Near-Peer Nations In Key Capabilities

Monday, May 16th, 2016

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Gen. Paxton: Sea Services Falling Behind Near-Peer Nations In Key Capabilities

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. John Paxton

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. --Potential adversaries have outpaced the Marine Corps’ assumed technological superiority in a high-end fight while the service has been focused on two counterinsurgency conflicts over the past decade and a half, according to the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.Gen. John Paxton said traditional nation-state competitors like Russia and China have invested in defense unopposed while the U.S. military was focused on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nation’s longest and still unfinished conflicts.“We haven’t quite…

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