What happens when you get three former Defense Secretaries and one former National Security Advisor in one room? Well, one thing is they rarely agree. A gathering by RAND Corp. of Harold Brown, Frank Carlucci, Brent Scowcroft, and Robert McNamara produced agreement that the US may be “ignoring some long-term dangers and might even be intensifying them.” Read more here.
Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Pentagon, spent his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 19 pressing his civilian bona fides to lawmakers, with some pledging opposition to the waiver Austin would need to become the nation’s first Black Defense Secretary. Austin spent 40 years in the military…