What happens when you get former Defense Secretaries and National Security Advisors from polar-opposite administrations in one room? Well, you would think they would rarely agree. This time was different. According to the latest Rand Review, Robert McNamara, Brent Scowcroft, Harold Brown, and Frank Carlucci agreed that the US may be “ignoring some long-term dangers and might even be intensifying them.” Read more in “Rand Panel Zeroes In on Proliferation” at right.
Walking the flight line occupied by Blackhawk attack helicopters and American troops on rotation at the “MK” air base in Romania, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III highlighted the important strategic value of one of NATO’s newest members Oct. 20 ahead of NATO defense ministerial meetings in Brussels Oct. 21-22.…