Episode Notes:

On this episode of The Insider, Nick sat down with Joslyn Fleming, a defense policy researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves; Katherine Guthrie, an operations researcher at RAND and a major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves; and Colin Smith, a senior international/defense researcher at RAND and a retired Marine Corps officer of 28+ years. The conversation explored in-depth the article, "Why The Marines Matter," which was published on April 5.

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