Mr. BERMAN: Well, it is the only defense that I know of, quite frankly.

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Kortunov is the sharpest analyst of Soviet defense and foreign policy I know.

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If you watched the clip you now know that I am not much of a defense analyst.

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Ms. DANIELLE PLETKA (American Enterprise Institute): The president is still the president, and the likelihood of him saying to any new secretary of defense - you know what, I'm bored with all this stuff, you go in a different direction, let me know how it works out for you - is not very great.

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One writer, Ben Shapiro, whom I don't know, has already done that, and I must note my appreciation (see " In Defense of David Yerushalmi").

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So know that I leave this post grateful for everything our defense civilians do for our military and our national security.

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And it really is, in this day and age of the kind of technology we have and how hard it is to keep something like that secret, it is really a remarkable testament to the fact that those individuals who did know in the administration -- I mean, in the White House, in the Defense Department, in the CIA, other agencies, understood how vital operational security was.

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And we're doing this because Secretary Gates and I both know that we can't build the 21st century military we need unless we fundamentally reform the way our defense establishment does business.

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