House Armed Services Committee member Randy Forbes (R-VA) has complained to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about what he believes are Defense Department plans to eliminate the Office of Net Assessment. “Given the critical contributions to U.S. national security made by the office during its forty-year history and its role as a central repository for long-range strategic thinking, we believe it would be a serious error to further consider its abolition,” Forbes wrote to Hagel in an Oct. 10 letter. Headed...