Barry Blechman, 34, assistant director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The most "dovish" of the experts, he headed the defense analysis staff of Washington's Brookings Institution until last fall, when he joined ACDA. At Brookings he directed a mid-1977 study, "The Soviet Military Buildup and U.S. Defense Spending."
John Collins, 56, senior specialist in national defense at the Congressional Research Service. Responsible for providing the Congress with a steady stream of "issue briefs" on national security questions, Collins has just completed a detailed and controversial comparison of U.S. and Soviet military capabilities.
Lieut. General Andrew Goodpaster, 63, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy. Long regarded as one of the Army's leading strategists, Goodpaster served as NATO commander, deputy commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, and for seven years as President Dwight Eisenhower's liaison with the Pentagon, State Department and the CIA.
William Hyland, 49, senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before retiring from Government service in late 1977, Hyland had spent 23 years—at the CIA, National Security Council and State Department—focusing on U.S.-Soviet relations, becoming one of the nation's top experts on strategic arms talks.
Edward Luttwak, 35, adjunct professor of international politics at Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. The author of books and articles ranging from analyses of arms control and the Middle East to the strategy of ancient Rome. Luttwak has earned a reputation as one of the U.S.'s most creative and provocative defense experts with a generally "hawkish" approach.