Hints and tips:
...Brown values candour and often tells colleagues that he wants to have “the meeting after the meeting”, said Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, the Air Force Director of Staff....
...James Smith, research director at the Resolution Foundation: The UK is suffering from a perfect storm of European energy price inflation and a US-style tight labour market....
..., Lt Gen Li Shangfu....
...James Stavridis, a former Nato supreme allied commander now dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, said the move raised serious concerns....
...In 2014, James Clapper, then director of national intelligence, went to Pyongyang to seek the release of two Americans, but did not meet the North Korean leader....
...James Mattis, Mr Trump’s defence secretary, is the former commander of US Central Command, while John Kelly, Mr Trump’s director of homeland security, is a retired four-star Marine corps general....
...James Stavridis, a retired admiral who was Supreme Allied Commander of Nato and US forces in Europe, also said Lt Gen McMaster was a strong choice....
...But when Lt Gen McMaster insisted this week that Washington was “going to have to rely on Chinese leadership” to apply economic pressure on Pyongyang, he asked for something that Beijing has obdurately refused...
...Critics of Mr Bannon saw the decision as a victory for Lt Gen McMaster that showed he was asserting influence over staffing....
...The three key foreign policy positions are now held by rational professionals, with James Mattis at the Pentagon, Lt Gen McMaster at the NSC and Rex Tillerson at the State Department....
...Among the others is James Mattis, the defence secretary, and national security adviser Lt Gen HR McMaster....
...The White House has been increasingly consumed by the Russia scandal since Mr Trump fired James Comey, the FBI director, for reasons that he described as the “Russia thing”....
...But in 2014 he was sacked as head of the Defence Intelligence Agency by Mr Clapper, the director of National Intelligence....
...national intelligence James Clapper, according to a senior US official....
...His most prominent supporter from the national security community is retired Lt Gen Michael Flynn, a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency....
...Carter Page, until recently a Trump foreign policy adviser, and retired Lt Gen Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Mr Trump’s top military adviser, have drawn fire for taking...
...A few days before our lunch, James Clapper, US director of national intelligence, had referred to some of the journalists who received documents from Snowden as his “accomplices”, while senior officials...
...Perhaps with the knowledge that the inquiry could leak, the FBI told James Clapper, director of national intelligence and Mr Petraeus’s boss, about the affair on the afternoon of the election....
...“There are still huge holes in security in energy and other systems, because they were not designed at the beginning with security in mind,” said retired Lt. Gen....
...Gen James Clapper, currently undersecretary of defence for intelligence, would replace retired Admiral Dennis Blair, whom Mr Obama removed as the US’s Director of National Intelligence last month....
...… The agency was the invention of Major General R. Cawthome, a British army officer who served in Pakistan and became the ISI’s second director....
...Gen McChrystal and Lt Gen Rodriguez will be “a team,” he said. “Each brings special skills,” and it is “their combined skill set that gives us fresh opportunities looking forward.”...
...Another supporter is Lt Gen Sir Cedric Delves....
...Adm Mullen met the US-trained Gen Kayani and Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, to make a direct appeal for the security forces to rein in militants – who...
...Mr Gates is expected to appoint Lt-Gen James Clapper, who had fallen out of favour with Mr Rumsfeld, as his top intelligence official....
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