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.
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.