Defense Policy Board Reconstituted (29 June 2026) — Lighthizer Chair, Coleman Vice Chair, 15 Members
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Fifteen people were named to the Pentagon's advice board on one day in June 2026, and this engine already knew four of them.
Who they are
The Department's own release of 29 June 2026, issued in the name of the Department of War by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth[1].
What they do
It named Robert Lighthizer, US Trade Representative from 2017 to 2021, as Chair, and former Senator Norm Coleman as Vice Chair, alongside thirteen other members[1]: Marc L. Andreessen, Michael N. Anton, Rachel A. Bovard, Tom P. Feddo, Mike J. Garcia, Kenneth P. Jones, Blake G. Masters, Daniel P. McCarthy, Michael P. Pillsbury, Adm. (Ret) Chas A. Richard, Francis P. Sempa, Christopher A. Williams and Theo J. Wold[2]. Fifteen seats filled against a charter ceiling of twenty[3].
How it works
Four of the fifteen were already on this map before the record was written: Lighthizer, held as a Bilderberg 2025 attendee; Andreessen, across six records; Michael Anton; and Chas Richard, who is the sitting president of the Institute for Defense Analyses. Blake Masters appeared only inside an edge label about the book Zero to One, with no record of his own. The other ten were absent from the engine entirely. That count was made by searching the full text of all eight engine files, not estimated.
Why it matters
No member's private positions, investments, advisory roles or disclosure filings are recorded here. The report that prompted this record carries such claims for three of the fifteen; they are not carried, because they were not traced to a primary document in this pass, and because a count built from three members is not a rate across fifteen. No reading is offered about why these fifteen and not others.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #194] The Department's own release of 29 June 2026, reproduced verbatim on the GlobalSecurity mirror because defense.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated clients. The release is issued in the name of the Department of War and 'Secretary of War Pete Hegseth' — the naming the engine already carries at pursue_data_drop.
THE RELEASE, verbatim: 'Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced the appointment of members to the Defense Policy Board. Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, who previously served as U.S. Trade Representative from 2017-2021, will serve as its Chair, and former Senator Norm Coleman will serve as its Vice Chair. In addition to Ambassador Lighthizer and Senator Coleman, Secretary Hegseth approved the appointments of thirteen other Defense Policy Board members:'
THE THIRTEEN, as listed in the release with its own honorifics: Mr. Marc L. Andreessen; Mr. Michael N. Anton; Ms. Rachel A. Bovard; The Honorable Tom P. Feddo; The Honorable Mike J. Garcia; Mr. Kenneth P. Jones; Mr. Blake G. Masters; Mr. Daniel P. McCarthy; Dr. Michael P. Pillsbury; Adm. (Ret) Chas A. Richard; Mr. Francis P. Sempa; Mr. Christopher A. Williams; Mr. Theo J. Wold. Fifteen seats in total, against a charter ceiling of twenty.
WHAT THE ENGINE ALREADY HELD ON THE NAMES, established by full-text search of all eight canon files on 2026-09-20 and recorded here so the coverage is checkable rather than asserted. FOUR were already in canon before this ripple: Robert Lighthizer, in the bilderberg node and ticker #910 as a 2025 attendee, held there as 'former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer'; Marc Andreessen, across six records including andreessen_marc, a16z_andreessen_horowitz and pcast_2026; Michael Anton, as michael_anton ('Claremont Institute. "The Flight 93 Election" (2016)'); and Chas Richard, inside institute_for_defense_analyses, which records 'Charles Richard (2025- — former STRATCOM commander)' as that institution's sitting president. ONE, Blake Masters, appeared only as an edge label on monopoly_as_mimetic_escape --formulated_by--> thiel, reading 'Thiel Zero to One (2014, with Blake Masters) primary articulation' — he had no node. TEN were absent from canon entirely: Coleman, Bovard, Feddo, Garcia, Jones, Daniel McCarthy, Pillsbury, Sempa, Williams and Wold.
WHAT IS NOT ESTABLISHED HERE. No member's private positions, investments, advisory roles or disclosure filings are recorded in this node. The source report that prompted this ripple carries such claims for three of the fifteen; they are not carried here because they were not verified to a primary in this pass, and because a count built from the three members someone looked up is not a rate over fifteen. That work is the gated second pass named in scorecard #272. No reading is offered about why these fifteen and not others. Held; name no holder.
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