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Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, left, thanks the audience after delivering his remarks at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy in Durham, N.C., on Nov. 29, 2012. Carter was hosted by Dr. Peter Feaver, the director of the American Grand Strategy Program and Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke.

Deputy Secretary Carter thanks the audience at Duke University

Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, left, thanks the audience after delivering his remarks at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy in Durham, N.C., on Nov. 29, 2012. Carter was hosted by Dr. Peter Feaver, the director of the American Grand Strategy Program and Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke.

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