Obama Likely to Seek a ‘Wartime’ Defense Secretary
In the days since Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
resigned, two prominent candidates to replace him have said publicly
they will not do so. They are former Undersecretary of Defense Michele
Flournoy and Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack Reed.
As President Barack Obama seeks a new appointee, the priorities for a defense secretary have changed since he selected Hagel, then chairman of the Atlantic Council, in February 2013, according to Barry Pavel, director of the Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. The president probably will want a “wartime secretary,” Pavel said in an interview with Ashish Kumar Sen earlier this week.
As President Barack Obama seeks a new appointee, the priorities for a defense secretary have changed since he selected Hagel, then chairman of the Atlantic Council, in February 2013, according to Barry Pavel, director of the Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. The president probably will want a “wartime secretary,” Pavel said in an interview with Ashish Kumar Sen earlier this week.
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