'Members, whose appointed terms range from one to four years, are selected on the basis of their preeminence in the fields of science, technology and its application to military operations, research, engineering, manufacturing and acquisition process.'
In other words, their expertise does NOT lie in Islamic Studies, the Middle East, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, or anything else they are speculating on in this report. In fact, they may as well be a group of software engineers randomly picked from the Microsoft campus, for all the authority with which they speak in this area. |