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.
Air Force Global Strike Command test-launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile Aug. 16, several days after delaying the test to avoid stoking tensions with China. The launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., took place at 12:49 a.m. Pacific time. The ICBM reentry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles…