Politico’s Ben Smith adds to Laura Rozen’s report on Obama’s South Asia-themed dinner last week. Ben learns that Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi was there, along with an important Obama-campaign defense adviser, ret. Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration. And that raises a question: why doesn’t — as best I can tell — Scott Gration have a job in the administration?

Now, maybe he will. But building on something that both Laura and I have reported, it’s somewhat bizarre that of the campaign’s foreign-policy inner circle, only Susan Rice, U.N. ambassador-designate, has a senior position. Richard Danzig isn’t going to be deputy defense secretary. We’re still waiting to hear about Gration, Ben Rhodes, Denis McDonough and Samantha Power, all of whom were instrumental to designing the Obama campaign’s foreign-policy positions. Obama, from what I understand, is still close with all of them, but it’s still unclear where, if anywhere, they’ll find themselves during the Obama administration.

(For all the Obama-Kremlinologists out there, let me be really really clear that I am just musing on this on my own behalf, not channelling any of the aforementioned individuals’ thinking. So please no speculation to the contrary.)

Crossposted to The Streak.

Update: Gration, it was announced earlier this week, will be NASA Administrator. So that’s one down! Apologies for missing this initially.