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...The officials include Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Chuck Hagel, former defence secretary; and Susan Rice, who served as national security adviser in the Barack Obama administration....
...The 44 retired senators — who included Democrats such as Tom Daschle, Max Baucus and John Kerry, and Republicans such as William Cohen and Chuck Hagel — said the US was “entering a dangerous period” as the...
...Opponents did not doubt that senators such as Lincoln Chafee and Chuck Hagel were Republicans. Sometimes they were accused by their own side of being “Republicans in name only”, or Rinos....
...Chuck Hagel, the last US defence secretary to visit China, said Mr Mattis would be unlikely to secure any U-turn....
...Joe Biden, who had recently quit the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, was joined by Chuck Hagel and John Kerry — a team, it turned out, that would later deal with Afghanistan as vice-president...
...This is when they voted to eliminate the filibuster for presidential appointments after Republicans attempted to block Barack Obama’s nominee for defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, a member of their own party...
...“I hate to use the term ‘red lines’ because it has not worked out so well in certain areas, but I think there are certain lines here that the US and Japan has to be very clear on,” says Chuck Hagel, former...
...The resignation of Chuck Hagel as US defence secretary has come at a delicate time. The US and allies are back at war in the Middle East – waging a bombing campaign against jihadis in Syria and Iraq....
...Ashton Carter, a former number two official at the Pentagon, has emerged as the clear favourite to become the new secretary of defence after Chuck Hagel resigned last week....
...Fresh from a thumping election defeat two weeks ago, Barack Obama has moved to shake up his national security team with the announcement that defence secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down....
...“Chuck Hagel has devoted himself to our national security and our men and women in uniform across six decades,” the president continued....
...Chuck Hagel became the first political casualty of the crises that have beset US foreign policy this year when President Barack Obama announced his defence secretary’s resignation on Monday, signalling a...
...This week Chuck Hagel stepped down as US defence secretary at a time when doubts are growing about the administration's ability to manage growing threats in the Middle East and Europe....
...Barack Obama chose Chuck Hagel as defence secretary two years ago because he hoped the former Republican senator would be able to use his Capitol Hill connections to steer smart cuts through the Congress...
...Ashton Carter’s likely nomination to replace Chuck Hagel as President Obama’s next Pentagon chief would be a stellar choice. In Donald Rumsfeld’s terminology, Carter is a known unknown....
...Chuck Hagel, the US secretary of defence, said that America is looking at all options in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, as he was pressed on whether the US would launch air strikes...
...US secretary of state John Kerry and defence secretary Chuck Hagel left the summit to fly directly to the Middle East to hold discussions with regional powers there about joining a campaign in Iraq....
...Chuck Hagel, secretary of defence, called on Ankara to open up the air base at Incirlik, southern Turkey....
...Defence secretary Chuck Hagel said on Tuesday that in the first year around 5,000 troops would be trained and would only be given light arms at the beginning....
...Chuck Hagel, the defence secretary, who sat next to Mr Dempsey at the press conference, did not directly endorse the idea of chasing Isis into Syria but he emphasised the threat posed by Isis in sharp terms...
...Chuck Hagel, the defence secretary, said on Thursday that he had received a new request from Ukraine for additional military assistance two weeks ago, which was still under review....
...Chuck Hagel, defence secretary, ordered General Chuck Jacoby to form and train a team of 20 critical care nurses, five doctors specialising in infectious diseases and five protocol trainers, the Pentagon...
...Last week defence secretary Chuck Hagel said that the group’s recent advances had created a “whole new dynamic” and that Isis was “as sophisticated and well-funded as any organisation we’ve seen.”...
...Gen Dempsey and defence secretary Chuck Hagel were speaking before a Senate hearing into the evolving US military strategy for taking on Isis....
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