
Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and W. Scott Gould, former Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, sat down with our War & Peace Fellows to talk career paths across think tanks, public service, and consulting. The conversation ranged widely: AI’s implications for national security, the future of U.S. defense acquisition, the state of the transatlantic alliance and NATO, and how to actually break into government work.








