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.
A yearslong effort to find an affordable way to turn cargo planes into strike platforms is now an official program with anticipated fielding in 2027.