Defense Policy Board

An advisory committee to the United States Secretary of Defense, the membership of the Defense Policy Board, as of 1 July 2009, is:

Returning

• John Hamre, chairman
• Harold Brown
• Vern Clark
• J.D. Crouch
• Fred Ikle
• Jack Keane
• Henry Kissinger
• Dave McCurdy
• William Perry
• James Schlesinger
• Marin Strmecki
• Vin Weber
• Peter Pace

New

• Larry Welch, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations
• Richard Danzig, former secretary of the Navy
• Robert Gallucci, former assistant secretary of state
• Chuck Hagel, former senator from Nebraska
• Robert Kaplan, Center for a New American Security
• Andrew Krepinevich, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
• Rudy deLeon, former deputy secretary of defense
• John Nagl, Center for a New American Security
• Sarah Sewall, Harvard University
• Wendy Sherman, former special advisor to the President.