A bipartisan group of defense and foreign policy experts brought together by RAND concludes in a new report that the next president should immediately "take charge" of the budget process as well as the controversial debate over National Missile Defense. Frank Carlucci, Robert Hunter and Zalmay Khalilzad steered the project. Carlucci, a RAND trustee, was defense secretary under Ronald Reagan; Hunter is a RAND senior adviser who served as ambassador to NATO during President Clinton's first term; and Khalilzad, the...
