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.
House, Senate Unveil Competing Proposals for 2026 Budget
July 11, 2025
Lawmakers from the House and Senate laid out competing versions of the annual defense policy bill on July 11, with vastly different potential outcomes for some of the Air Force’s most embattled programs.