Stuart E. Johnson has many years of experience in defense planning and analysis at the Department of Defense. NATO headquarters, and in private industry Martin C. Libicki's areas of expertise include the application of information technology to national security. Gregory F. Treverton has worked on intelligence and on Europe for Congress, the White House and the National Intelligence Council Bruce W. Bennett's research interests include military strategy and force planning, countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Korea, and the Persian Gulf Nurith Berstein specializes in national and international security policy issues Frank Camm leads research at RAND on high-level Army resource management issues associated with force structure design, logistics policy, and acquisition of combat service support services David S.C.

Chu has served in a variety of RAND and national security government posts Paul K. Davis's expertise includes strategic defense planning, future forces and force transformation, and advanced modeling and simulation Daniel B. Fox has over 30 years of experience in military operations analysis James R. Hosek is a senior economist at RAND and editor-in-chief of the RAND Journal of Economics David Mussington is an expert in critical infrastructure protection, information and technology security, and counterterrorism and cyberterrorism Stuart H. Starr is the Director of Plans at The MITRE Corporation; his areas of expertise include the assessment of information systems in the context of national security missions Harry J. Thie's research explores officer career management and military recruiting, retention, and compensation.