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30 Jul 2019, 5:00 am by Maggie Tennis, Strobe Talbott
Greater investment in new weapons will “strongly position the U.S. military for great power competition for decades to come,” as then-Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan tweeted in May. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 12:20 pm by Vishnu Kannan
” The event will feature a keynote address by Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 7:16 am by Amanda Sloat
Ben Wallace, the cabinet’s highest-ranking Remainer, becomes defense secretary; he got the job when Hunt declined the post. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
He offered U.S. aid to Ukraine to increase gas production, which could benefit the Ukrainian energy industry. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as Secretary of the U.S. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 6:35 am by Fred Rocafort
” This led Secretary Mnuchin to declare the trade war was “on hold. [read post]
24 Jul 2019, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
According to Politico, Attorney General William Barr and HHS Secretary Alex Azar opposed this approach, but acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney prevailed upon the President. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 10:10 am by Stewart Baker
Defense Department, and then Richard Clarke, hardly a conservative, says he agrees with the criticism. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 3:42 pm by Anne Joseph O'Connell
Richard Spencer, secretary of the Navy, then became the third acting secretary of defense in 2019. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 1:15 pm by Vishnu Kannan
ICYMI: Last Weekend on Lawfare Jen Patja Howell shared the most recent episode of the Lawfare Podcast, in which Jack Goldsmith interviews former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter about his recent book “Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 11:23 am by Vishnu Kannan
” The committee will call Thomas Countryman, Former Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; Brian McKeon, Former Acting Under Secretary and Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Defense; Madelyn Creedon, Former Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; and Thomas Karako, Director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic… [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 11:23 am by David Oscar Markus
” The furor caused by that series led last week to the resignation of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who had the misfortune of being the U.S. attorney whose office prosecuted the long-ago case. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 10:26 am by Hadley Baker, Mikhaila Fogel
Around the same time, candidate Trump announced that he hoped Russia would recover emails described as missing from a private server used by Clinton when she was Secretary of State (he later said that he was speaking sarcastically). [read post]
20 Jul 2019, 5:30 am by Vishnu Kannan
Vishnu Kannan shared a livestream of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Mark Esper to be Secretary of Defense. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 7:16 am by Galip Dalay
On June 6, then-Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan sent a strongly-worded letter to his Turkish counterpart over Turkey’s planned purchase of S-400 air defense system from Russia. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 9:01 pm by Jareb Gleckel and Sherry F. Colb
New York, affirmed a district court’s finding that the evidence in the record failed to support Secretary Ross’s explanation for including a citizenship question in the census. [read post]