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It's a Pentagon issue, it's a military issue, it's a domestic international relations issue.

What's the one article, Secretary Clinton and. Trump should read in your new issue?

Well, I would say the two articles are not going to take two of them.

One is by Michael Hamlin and David Petraeus about the state of our military and it's called our awesome

military and how it can be even better. And basically what they say is the

military is in pretty good shape now but we need to invest strategically for the long term and that requires

getting rid of sequestration and budgeting over the long term in ways that Congress currently

isn't doing. The other thing is a piece by Rashid Ganushi, the Islamist leader in Tunisia,

whose party, Enada, has just changed from being formally Islamist to being Muslim Democrats.

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