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...DEFENCE Michèle Flournoy, a former top Pentagon official, is the strong favourite. She would be the first female secretary of defence....
...Do also read my colleagues Robert Armstrong and Joe Rennison’s highly-read piece, “All the president’s debts: to whom Donald Trump owes money”....
...Robert O’Brien, Mr Trump’s national security adviser, has defended the attack on Soleimani, saying that he was plotting to kill a significant number of American diplomats and soldiers “in the coming days...
...Michèle Flournoy, a former under secretary of defence, is tipped as a likely Pentagon chief....
...Other people who one might expect to assume top posts in a Clinton administration, such as Michèle Flournoy, Jim Steinberg, Bill Burns, and Kurt Campbell, are also respected internationally....
...The first two, Michèle Flournoy, also a former senior Pentagon official, and Jack Reed, a Democratic senator from Rhode Island, turned him down. Ms Flournoy cited family reasons....
...If nominated, Mr Hagel would be the latest in a series of Republican secretaries of defence in Democratic administrations, following Robert Gates in the first Obama term and William Cohen under President...
...Ms Flournoy said Beijing had postponed a planned visit to China by Admiral Robert Willard, commander of US forces in the Pacific, as well as a planned counter-piracy joint exercise, but she was confident...
...“If a non-nuclear weapons state is in compliance with the non-proliferation treaty and its obligations, the US pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it,” said Robert Gates, secretary...
...is to begin a year-long review in how to change its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay people serving in the military – a change promised by Barack Obama, president, in his State of the Union speech, Robert...
...inner circle are detected by the rumour mill even when they are absent, such as on the president’s decision to begin the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011 – a recommendation that came from Robert...
...Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, said Mr Obama would “lay out the framework” on Thursday for shutting Guantánamo....
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