Meet Michele Flournoy, A Leading Candidate To Lead The Pentagon

Michele Flournoy is the early favorite to succeed Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense. And while some commentators have wondered whether the Pentagon's former third-highest-ranking civilian and founder of the influential Center for a New American Security (CNAS) isn't better off waiting until Hilary Clinton's presidency to take the defense secretary job, on paper it's hers to lose. Flournoy was