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.
There are now reports that one of the intelligence community's stars, Under Secretary of Defense Mike Vickers, may have leaned too far forward in talking to the film's creators.
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.