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Deputy Defense Ash Carter delivers remarks on strategic and budgetary choices for U.S. defense at the Harvard Institute of Politics in Cambridge, Mass., April 23, 2013.

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Deputy Defense Ash Carter delivers remarks on strategic and budgetary choices for U.S. defense at the Harvard Institute of Politics in Cambridge, Mass., April 23, 2013.

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