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Truman championed a bold new architecture to respond to the Soviet threat --
one that paired military strength with the Marshall Plan and helped secure
the peace and well-being of nations around the world. As colonialism
crumbled and the Soviet Union achieved effective nuclear parity, Kennedy
modernized our military doctrine, strengthened our conventional forces, and
created the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress. They used our
strengths to show people everywhere America at its best.
   Today, we are again called to provide visionary leadership...

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The American moment is not over, but it must be seized anew. To see American
power in terminal decline is to ignore America's great promise and historic
purpose in the world. If elected president, I will start renewing that
promise and purpose the day I take office.

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To renew American leadership in the world, we must immediately begin working
to revitalize our military...
...We should expand our ground forces by adding 65,000 soldiers to the army
and 27,000 marines.
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We must also consider using military force in circumstances beyond
self-defense in order to provide for the common security that underpins
global stability -- to support friends, participate in stability and
reconstruction operations, or confront mass atrocities...
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To defeat al Qaeda, I will build a twenty-first-century military and
twenty-first-century partnerships as strong as the anticommunist alliance
that won the Cold War to stay on the offense everywhere from Djibouti to
Kandahar.
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