They were Michael Vickers, who was once with the CIA and who's a former Special Forces Captain.

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Michael Vickers, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, tells Northam that reducing combat troops would represent a fundamental shift in strategy.

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More names include Rhode Island senior senator Jack Reed, a retired army paratrooper, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, outgoing Indiana senator Dick Lugar, undersecretary of defense Michael Vickers and Mike Leiter, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

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