Mark Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group.

General Gordon R. Sullivan (USA, Ret.), President, Association of the United States Army, and Former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (USA, Ret.), Chief Executive Officer, Walden E-Learning, Inc., and Former Commandant, United States Army War College; Michele A. Flournoy, Senior Advisor, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Toguchi, USA, Professor, National War College, National Defense University; Colonel Douglas A. Macgregor, USA, Senior Military Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University; James Kurtz, Research Staff Member, Joint Advance War Fighting Program, Institute for Defense Analyses; Major General James J. Grazioplene, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, Combat Development, United States Army Training and Doctrine.

Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, President of the World Bank and President of Ford Motor Company; James Blight, Professor of International Relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University; Harriet Babbitt, former Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and currently a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; and Phillip Brenner, Professor at the School of International Service, American University.