STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Eight fellows at the Hoover Institution have been appointed to the U.S. Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, which advises national leaders on major matters of defense policy. They are among 29 newly appointed members of the committee.
The committee addresses long-term, enduring issues central to Department of Defense strategic planning and responds to specific requests from the secretary of defense and other defense officials.
Members review and assess the long-term strategic implications of defense policies in various regions of the world, the policy implications of current and prospective weapons and weapons classes, and the impact of U.S. defense policies on alliance military issues.
The Hoover fellows named to the committee are Richard Allen, former national security adviser; Martin Anderson, the Keith and Jan Hurlbut senior fellow and a longtime policy adviser to presidents and governors; Gary S. Becker, the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson senior fellow and a Nobel laureate in economics; and Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives.
Also: Henry Rowen, former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs; George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford distinguished fellow and former secretary of state; Kiron Skinner, the W. Glenn Campbell research fellow and assistant professor of history, political science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University; and Pete Wilson, former governor of California.
Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense, chairs the committee. Members are from the private sector, and are selected because of their distinguished backgrounds in national military affairs. The committee meets quarterly, although panels drawn from the board meet at other times to address specific topics.
