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I'll tell you that that is a tough term

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to define because everyone has their

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own perspective . Here's mine , I

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believe that the United States Air

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Force as part of the Department of

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Defense , as part of the US .

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Government plays a role in great power

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competition . My view is that nations

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compete , great power competition is

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among nations who compete for influence ,

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who compete for preservation of values ,

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who compete for economic prosperity of

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their nations . That competition

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happens at the national level . I think

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our role is to ensure that when those

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tools are on the table to compete among

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nations that if a nation decides that

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they wanna use force as their tool ,

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they look at the United States and say ,

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mm maybe not so much . That's our job .

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And if they make that bad decision that

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they are gonna use force to advance

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their policies , they understand it's a

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mistake because we will defeat them .

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So that's the the air force . And the

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military's role is to make sure that

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military instrument of power is may be

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taken off the table by potential

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adversaries