Walter Cronkite as Self - Host

Richard Dreyfuss as President

Noah Wyle as Buck

Brian Dennehy as Gen. Bogan

Sam Elliott as Congressman Raskob

James Cromwell as Gordon Knapp

John Diehl as Col. Cascio

Hank Azaria as Prof. Groeteschele

Norman Lloyd as Defense Secretary Swenson

Bill Smitrovich as Gen. Stark

Don Cheadle as Lt. Jimmy Pierce

George Clooney as Col. Jack Grady

Harvey Keitel as Brig. Gen. Warren Black

Doris Belack as Mrs. Johnson

Grant Heslov as Jimmy

Will Rothhaar as Tommy Grady

John Philbin as