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.
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.
