The last bastion of defence in favour of our superiority was cognition.

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Administration officials and others take our superiority in the air for granted and thereby conclude we don't need to make big investments on future weapons systems to maintain that superiority.

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DoD funded research and projects have proved critical to not only maintaining our military superiority but also to our commercial economy.

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And guided by our new defense strategy, we will maintain our military superiority.

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We need to invest in new platforms to maintain our economic superiority.

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It's not the remarkable platforms that give the United States our military superiority -- although you've got some pretty impressive aircraft here, I got to admit.

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So, yes, our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats.

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Our military and economic superiority has benefited tremendously from this approach.

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Our approach places technological superiority in service to apologetic self-abnegation.

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