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Sessions: Strategic Posture Commission Could Spur Major National Debate

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Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford A congressionally mandated commission examining U.S. strategic posture and the role of nuclear weapons has the potential to initiate a major reexamination of the nation's strategic defenses, a senior Senate authorizer said yesterday. "Its report could, like the Rumsfeld Commission [on National Space Management and Organization early this decade], really have a profound affect on the way we approach strategic defense," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said at a breakfast in Washington sponsored by the National Defense University…

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