“We need a whole-of-government approach.”
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“The United States military is necessary, but it is not sufficient alone,” Mullen said. He pointed out that the American military is stretched and is doing missions that servicemembers have not been trained to do.
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Other Cabinet-level departments – State, Treasury, Commerce, Justice – have the proper expertise for “soft-power” missions and need to have personnel able to deploy to address these problems, Mullen said. “But in my opinion,” he added,
“we are a good decade away from creating a capability in our other departments.”
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via DefenseLink News
(emphasis added)
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