Recent essays by Michèle Flournoy, who co-chairs the incoming Obama administration's Pentagon transition team, and Robert Gates, who will continue to lead the Defense Department for President-elect Barack Obama, shed light on the procurement and policy challenges awaiting DOD. Flournoy, who co-founded the Center for New American Security (CNAS), authored an essay this fall with CNAS fellow Shawn Brimley for The Washington Quarterly , which peers ahead at the tough decisions DOD will face on Obama's watch. "Once a new...
