The Telegraph reports on top Obama advisor Richard Danzig's recent talk at the Center for a New American Security. "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security," Danzig began.

Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children's classic, which says: "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it."

Danzig was secretary of the Navy in the Clinton administration and would be a prime contender for national security advisor if Obama won in November.