John Kinnucan would have probably been a better TV reality star than an expert network analyst.

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Patrick Poole is an expert terrorism analyst and co-author of the Center for Security Policy's Amazon best-seller Team B II: Shariah - The Threat to America.

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Stephanie Eidelman is the publisher of insideARM.com and also the resident Excel expert and data analyst.

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"Right now, if you pulled the contractor force out, you don't have enough troops to fill the gaps, " says Peter Singer, a defense analyst and expert on military contracts at Brookings.

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"You really want to cool off as much of the opposition as you can, " says Julius Hobson, a senior policy analyst and health care policy expert at the law and lobbying firm Bryan Cave.

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"Israelis are despite their skepticism and pessimism I think they are hoping that maybe the Americans will be able to pull the rabbit out of the hat, to put it that way, " says Israeli analyst Meir Javedanfar, an Iran expert.

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"The U.S. has to be cautious in expecting a major breakthrough on North Korea out of the new Chinese leadership, " said Christopher Johnson, a former CIA analyst who is now a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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