However, they did want to buy existing companies in the industry using borrowed money, consolidate overlapping operations, and sell at a profit.

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Not all of these benefits would flow from removing head-office duplication and overlapping operations such as mines and the railways linking them to ports.

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Each Administration and every major study, review, and strategy document continued to plan for two major operations in overlapping time frames.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | The Measure of a Superpower: A Two Major Regional Contingency Military for the 21st Century | Page: 2

The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would strain a force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century