Buried in a recent Daily Beast article is a rundown of who's advising Rand Paul on foreign policy issues:
the daily beast.com/articles/2014/08/18/rand-paul-s-romance-with-realism.html
“To begin, I guess you could say what he’s not: he’s not a neoconservative, a unilateralist on the one hand; and he’s not what some people call a liberal interventionist on the other,” Richard Burt, a former ambassador to Germany and State Department adviser to Ronald Reagan, who acts as an unofficial foreign policy adviser to Paul, told me. “I would put him in the mold of a traditional, Republican internationalist—more along the lines of a kind of Dwight Eisenhower, to some extent, Ronald Reagan, and maybe George H.W. Bush, in the sense that he, I think, he certainly is not an isolationist.”
Burt is part of an informal, unpaid foreign policy team who regularly briefs Paul on international issues. In addition to Burt, the group includes Rob Givens, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general from Kentucky, and Elise Jordan, Condoleezza Rice’s one-time speechwriter, and Lorne Craner, a former John McCain staffer and the head of the International Republican Institute. Hardly a collection of pacifists.
Burt seems ok. Elise Jordan's a no brainer. Ever since she went on TV in early 2012 defending Ron Paul's presidential run, the Pauls have been keeping an eye on her, so it's no surprise she's come full circle to advising Rand.
Not sure on the others.
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