After introductory remarks by American Strategy Program Director Steve
Clemons, James R. Locher III -- President & CEO of the Project on National
Security Reform, and lead author of Turning
Ideas into Action -- laid out the many issues handicapping the national
security bureaucracy. Describing the Departments as strong and the integrating
mechanisms chronically weak, Locher portrayed the National Security Adviser as
the head of an enormous force with almost no independent power, lacking even
